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Solutions to Population Growth Weaken Catholic Church Authority

That the Vatican views the solutions to the population problem as threats to its authority, and thus its political power, is well supported.

Overpopulation: The Global Challenge and Its Far-reaching Impacts

Overpopulation exerts pressure on the environment, exacerbating the depletion of natural resources, and contributing to ecological degradation.

Pulling back the curtain on Opus Dei

It didn't take long for me to realise that Opus Dei’s public façade - that it was completely transparent and had nothing to hide -…

Why America needs to confront the Vatican

An American confrontation with the Vatican over its anti-family-planning efforts is prerequisite to removal of this obstruction to the common good.

The Cult-Goofy, Defective Final 16th Chapter of Mark’s Gospel

The red letters are a way of lying -- intended to keep modern readers in the dark about how the gospels were created.

The American Catholic Church is Shrinking Because of Bad Politics

One U.S. hierarch is even an enthusiastic MAGA supporter. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the prelate of Wall Street, is openly pro-Trump.

Classical education: a conservative Trojan horse?

I strongly disapprove of any professor using the classroom as a bully pulpit to promote an ideology.

‘They just ignored my tears, they ignored my unhappiness’: former Irish nuns reveal accounts of brainwashing and abuse

In the Ireland of the 1950s (and indeed until the demise of the Catholic church in the 1990s), priests and nuns enjoyed positions of power.

The Inquisition and witch hunts marred Europe for centuries

After killing Muslims in Crusades and Jews in massacres, Christians began murdering fellow Christians who deviated from official dogma.

Rationally and Morally Justifiable: Martin Luther King Jr. on Birth Control

Martin Luther King publicly supported family planning and access to contraception, viewing it in the context of poverty as good.

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