CUA Philosophy Prof: “You can’t pick and choose in Catholic moral teaching.” « Campus Notes

The following excerpts are from the Cardinal Newman Society Blog "Campus Notes":

• “You can’t pick and choose in Catholic moral teaching” said John Rist, a philosopher and professor at The Catholic University of America in an interview with Vatican Voices. To do so, he added, “is just cowardly.”

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The Amazing Latin Mass Society at Belmont Abbey College Thrives with New Media « Campus Notes

The following excerpts are from the Cardinal Newman Society Blog "Campus Notes":

• It’s a Friday night on a college campus. Students walk out of their dorms in the dead of winter, their breath billowing out in puffs of steam, greeting friends with nods and handshakes, hopping into cars and convoying over 30 minutes to a nearby city.
• It’s a typical scene on many college campuses across the country, but these aren’t your typical college students. These are members of the Latin Mass Society at Belmont Abbey College, preparing to attend the candle-lit Solemn High Mass at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Charlotte.
• “It shows the power of God,” Belmont Abbey College student Anthony Perlas told The Cardinal Newman Society. ”Twenty-three people on a Friday night going to Latin Mass. Wow. It’s amazing.”

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Chief Rabbis of Israel say, 'Killing fetuses is murder' | LifeSiteNews.com

The following excerpts are from LifeSiteNews.com:

• Israel’s two chief rabbis have again issued a letter to all synagogue and community rabbis urging them to condemn abortion and to support the work of Efrat, the country’s pro-life organization.
• In stronger language than they have used in their previous messages, Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger and Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel Shlomo Amar called the killing of the child in the womb “murder.”
• “As in past,” the letter reads, “we call on all rabbis in Israel” to “raise in their words and sermons in synagogues…the severe prohibition of abortion.”

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'Same-sex marriage serious crime against humanity,' says African archbishop | LifeSiteNews.com

The following excerpts are from LifeSiteNews.com:

• A Catholic archbishop in Cameroon preached, “Marriage of persons of the same sex is a serious crime against humanity” in his homily at Christmas Day Mass.
• The Archbishop of Yaoundé, Simon-Victor Tonyé Bakot, encouraged his countrymen to defend African values of what constitutes an authentic marriage and family against recent efforts by international gay activists to overturn the country’s anti-sodomy laws—something many on the continent have called a form of cultural imperialism.
• “We need to stand up to combat it with all our energy. I am particularly thankful to our local media that has been spreading this message of it as a criminality against mankind,” he said.

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