Young Swedes are not allowed to vote until they are 18, and they cannot buy alcohol until they are 20, but plans are now being made to allow children as young as 12 years old to apply to have their legal gender changed.

    But the frustration for those of us who have been calling for compassion for Syrian victims for many months is that the Christian community is yet again left at the bottom of the heap.

… right-wing Ukrainian nationalists are committing war crimes

… A serious philosophical problem arises when the same conditions that would have justified abortion become known after birth

… That there exists a being who in our language is called ‘God’ is an old rumor that cannot be silenced

… The practice of indiscriminately presenting oneself to receive Holy Communion, merely as a consequence of being present at Mass, is an abuse that must be corrected

  “It appears to me… that many old people would find great reassurance if they could have a means to end their lives in an acceptable way at the moment that to them… appears suitable.”

    Priestly ordination, which hands on the office entrusted by Christ to his Apostles of teaching, sanctifying and governing the faithful, has in the Catholic Church from the beginning always been reserved to men alone. This tradition has also been faithfully maintained by the Oriental Churches.