Bishop of Lancaster Right Rev. Patrick O'Donoghue is one of Britain’s outstanding Catholic leaders. His heroic response to today's moral crises, especially that of the Government's legislation on same-sex adoption and his criticism of secularised "values-free" sex education has made him renowned amongst Catholics. The Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy recommends his new book, "Fit for Mission Church", as an effective and practical instrument for advancing the much heralded New Evangelisation.
Title: Who Do You Worship?
Author: Barbara McGuigan
Barbara McGuigan is the executive director of Voice of Virtue International and teaches the virtues that the Catholic Faith upholds — Faith, Hope and Charity, as well as Justice, Fortitude, Temperance and Prudence — provide the formal structure that supports all of Voice of Virtue’s programs and projects. She has designed her outreaches to encourage virtuous living, to battle vice (the opposite of virtue), and to build up what is good, true and holy in our own lives and in the world around us.
Title: Cost of Ignoring HV
Author: Dr. Claude Newbury
Dr. Claude Newbury, national president of the pro-life organisation, is an immenant doctor and international speaker on Life issues. He heads the Family Life International organisation in South Africa and has long forght in defending life from conception until natural death.
Title: Marriage Reflection
Title: Salvery
Author: Fr Linus Clovis
Fr Clovis holds a PhD in Mathematics from London university and studied Theology and canon law at the Angelicum university in Rome before he was ordained by Pope John Paul II in 1983. He single handedly took on the Government in the fight against the legalization of abortion in St Lucia, getting the support of almost 20% of the adult population who signed a petition against the killing of the preborn. Fr Clovis is the spiritual director of Family Life International and with its world wide mission, and has spoken to thousands of people all over the world.
Title: Gay Lie
Title: Gay Issues Qand A Nicholas
Author: Joseph Nicolosi
is a clinical psychologist, founder and director of the Thomas Aquinas Psychological Clinic, in Encino, California, and a Past-President of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). [1] Nicolosi has advocated and practiced reparative therapy, which help people overcome or reduce unwanted homosexual feelings –
Nicolosi has described his theories in Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality: A New Clinical Approach and two other books. Nicolosi has concluded on the basis of his study and professional experience that homosexuality is often the product of a condition he describes as "gender-identity deficit" caused by an alienation from, and perceived rejection by, individuals of the subject's gender. [3] He holds a Ph.D. from the California School of Professional Psychology.
Title: Pornography
Author: Mervyn Nuttly
Title: Euthanasia
Author: Msg W Smith
YONKERS, New York, January 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After the recent deaths in New York of Fordham University theologian Avery Cardinal Dulles, and prolific pro-life activist and intellectual giant Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, the pro-life and pro-family movements and the Catholic Church are mourning the passing of another brilliant star.
Monsignor William B. Smith died on Saturday, January 24, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers.
Monsignor Smith was Professor of Moral Theology at Saint Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers since 1971 and one of the leading Catholic voices in the U.S. on moral and medical ethics.
Smith was born and raised in Yonkers, ordained a priest in 1966 by Francis Cardinal Spellman and, after being chosen by Terence Cardinal Cooke to pursue a doctorate in moral theology at the Catholic University in Washington, assumed his position at St. Joseph's Seminary. While at the seminary, apart from being a teacher or mentor to most of the priests serving in the Archdiocese of New York today, he was an adviser on questions of moral theology and ethics to Cardinals Cooke, O'Connor and Egan.
Msgr. Smith was a regular presence on EWTN where he was well known for his ability to clearly explain difficult theological and ethical concepts, as well as for his direct and expansive sense of humor.
An example of Msgr. Smith's straightforward approach to ethical questions was his reproof of the New York State Catholic Conference's endorsement of the use of abortifacient "emergency contraception" in Catholic hospitals for rape victims.
Msgr. Smith emphatically ruled out the use of abortifacients at Catholic hospitals. "It's wrong to say you can use anything that has abortifacient properties. Emergency contraception is double talk. It's what I call verbal engineering. Catholic hospitals are not free to proscribe or provide anything with abortifacient properties without contradicting their witness."
Monsignor Joseph Giandurco, who served with Msgr. Smith on the seminary faculty for 12 years and is now pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Suffern, NY, commented in a Journal News report, "He was a top-notch moral theologian, highly regarded in the United States and in Rome. He corresponded with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who is now of course Pope Benedict XVI, on a number of sensitive issues over the years."
"I feel, and other priests have said, that we lost another clear teaching voice that will be extremely hard to replace," Giandurco said. "Monsignor Smith was always cool, calm, and collected and sharp as a tack. He had such great knowledge of the teachings of the church."
A wake will be held for Monsignor Smith from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm on Monday, January 26, and from 2 to 4 pm on Tuesday, January 27, at the chapel of St. Joseph's Seminary, on Seminary Avenue in Yonkers.
The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 am, Wednesday January 27 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 8 Carman Road, in Scarsdale, NY.
Title: The Secular War on the Supernatural
Author: Alice von Hildebrand
(born Alice Jourdain, 11 March 1923 in Brussels, Belgium) is a Catholic philosopher and theologian.
She came to the U.S. in 1940 and began teaching at Hunter College in New York City in 1947. She was married to the famous philosopher and theologian Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977), meeting him at Fordham University in New York where she was a student and he was a professor. She remained married to him until his death. She retired in 1984.
Alice von Hildebrand lives in the United States and is a lecturer and an author, whose works include: The Privilege of Being a Woman (2002) and The Soul of a Lion: The Life of Dietrich von Hildebrand (2000), a biography of her late husband.
