South Texas Catholic

Catholics across the United States offer hope and help to their sisters and brothers in Africa through contributions to the Solidarity Fund for the Church in Africa.

Today, the House voted 219 to 208 in favor of H.R. 4502, a package of appropriations bills that currently excludes the 46-year-old Hyde Amendment and other longstanding, bipartisan provisions like the Weldon Amendment. Eliminating these provisions would force taxpayers to pay for elective abortions and would have the effect of forcing health care providers and professionals to perform and refer for abortion against their deeply-held beliefs, as well as forcing employers and insurers to cover and pay for abortion. 

During the July 26 webinar entitled, "Dignity and Dementia: Mapping the Church's Response to the Coming Crisis," Charles Camosy, author and associate professor of bioethics at Fordham University, said that COVID-19 has given society an opportunity to finally start talking openly and honestly about issues related to those who have dementia. In his recent book, "Losing Our Dignity," he challenges society to move forward with urgency and choose a path with clear social and moral benefits before the upcoming crisis spirals out of control.

When we first married, my wife, Misty, and I were the typical secular couple. We relied on hormonal contraception. Due to bad side effects, that didn’t last long. Misty found out about Natural Family Planning (NFP) through a Catholic friend. Admittedly, I was suspicious of all the “hocus pocus” involving thermometers at o’ dark-thirty in the morning and observations written down in cryptic symbols on the NFP chart. That would all change in surprising ways once we got into living the NFP lifestyle.