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From the Vatican: New Instruction on Bioethics
Friday, December 12th, 2008Today the Vatican released Dignitas Personae (The Dignity of a Person; opens as PDF in new window), an instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) on bioethics. Dignitas Personae is a “sequel” to the 1987 instruction Donum Vitae (On Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of [...]
Church Teaching Is Not Negotiable!
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008In our legal system, if we don’t like a law, we push for new laws and elect new legislators who might listen to us. When it comes to interpreting and applying existing laws, we hire the most skilled attorneys we can afford, whose job is not to seek the truth but to present our side [...]
Church on a Mission
Friday, December 14th, 2007The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has just issued a document entitled “Doctrinal Note on Some Aspects of Evangelization.” The text should be available sometime today and we’ll post a link when that occurs. At today’s presentation of the document, Father Joseph Augustine Di Noia, O.P, who serves as CDF undersecretary, said that the document first [...]
CDF Responds to Questions on the Nature of the Catholic Church
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007The Congregration for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), the Vatican’s doctrinal office, just issued a document clarfiying the doctrine of the Church on June 29, 2007, the solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul. Important issues addressed in this document include the relation of Vatican II statements to prior Church teaching; the meaning of the [...]