Tag: Church Teaching

Although theologians once debated when the soul enters the body, the Church has consistently taught from the earliest centuries that abortion is always a grave moral evil.

Encyclical letters generally address matters of faith or morals, encourage a particular commemoration or pious devotion, or deal with matters of church discipline which are to be universally observed.

Vatican documents reveal an artificial intelligence program called Magisterium AI is being rolled out to help users easily find answers to questions of faith.

Pope Francis again insisted that an informal blessing of a gay or other unmarried couple is not a blessing of their union.

Dear Fr John Flader, I understand that the Vatican has recently approved blessings for same-sex couples. How can the Church change its mind? 

Tensions between Rome and German bishops are again intensifying after the latter were informed that the church's teaching are non-negotiable.

I dove back into the Catholics in Australia survey to see if there were other ways Catholic schooling might relate to how you believe, behave and belong to the Church.

The first words of the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church—one of the council’s two most important texts—signaled a decisive development in Catholic self-understanding.

The first of three-part series on heresy Modernity has been conditioned to think of orthodoxy as a stiff and stodgy thing, closed to new ideas...

One thing the Church must never lose sight of is keeping Christ at the centre of all She does. And this applies to every...

The Plenary Council 2020/21 is an opportunity for the Catholic Church in Australia to refocus on its primary mission which is that of evangelisation....

While the Church has never been free of conflict and argument, a major problem of the modern era originates in what might loosely be...