(June 29, 2017 – The Pew Charitable Trusts – Rebecca Beitsch) When Brad Hoylman and his husband wanted to start a family, they looked to a woman nearly 3,000 miles away to carry their child. The two Manhattanites turned to a … Continue reading
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Landscape shifts for surrogate motherhood
(April 19, 2017 – Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly – Nicholas W. Smith) Tightening of laws in other countries fuels U.S. market, but not all states are relaxing statutes Modern technology for nearly two decades has made it possible for infertile … Continue reading
‘The Joy of Love’ and family policy
In his recently released exhortation, “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), Pope Francis affirms the family as the foundational unit of society, the place where children are nurtured and formed in love and where spouses grow in self-giving. “The welfare … Continue reading
Surrogacy and the Throwaway Culture
Throughout his pontificate, Pope Francis has waged a war on the “throwaway culture,” in which anything can be commodified and given a dollar value, and where life itself can be, in his words, “considered a consumer good to be used … Continue reading
The Wanderer: Bishop Sirba Of Duluth . . . Outlines “Throwaway Culture” And How To Answer It
(by Peggy Moen) May 12, 2015 MINNEAPOLIS — Bishop Paul Sirba of Duluth, Minn., addressed about 250 pro-lifers at St. Helena’s here on “The Gospel of Life in a Throwaway Culture,” borrowing Pope Francis’ theme. The occasion was the parish’s … Continue reading