Nothing alters the reality that abortifacients, contraceptives, and sterilization services are really not dimensions of “healthcare,” for they do nothing to foster health.
Conversion is a game-changer in the fertility crisis. Catholics must live as if children are a gift to be cherished—not a “right” to be demanded of God when we finally decide we’re “ready.”
Apart from the obvious economic dimensions of America’s fertility crisis is a timeless spiritual crisis—a crisis of the theological virtue of hope.
No one is saying life must be drudgery; life is quite bright and exceptionally shiny. But it tends to look less so when we close our eyes and attempt to impose the world of our imaginations on the exterior.
Recently released numbers reflecting American opinions on sexual ethics and indicating record-low fertility rates underscores the imperative for all American Catholics to engage fully the anticipated discussion topics of October’s Extraordinary Synod.
No kind of regulation will be able to address the continued breakup of communities and the estrangement of their members; or the fact that advancement in the capitalist system is based on greed and self-regard.
He famously denounced the rise of Christianity as the triumph of the slave morality, but Nietzsche’s version of morality aligns with Christian morality in more ways than he’d like to admit.
Playing allows us to take momentary respite in our daily lives. When done well, it disposes us neither to manipulate nor conquer reality; to accept it in the particularity of an encounter, not in an abstracted totality.
