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What is a Wholesome Culture?

Catholic social teaching makes a strong case that the culture in the United States is NOT wholesome.

Rest in Peace Pope Benedict XVI
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Reigning from 2005-2013, Pope Benedict XVI gave of his many gifts—as a theologian, a scholar, and a man of faith—in service of the Church. His pontificate was not an easy one, confronted by many challenges with many issues needing to be addressed.
What is Marriage?
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Marriage cannot be redefined or expanded to include same-sex unions, "throuples", or any other thing it is not. Marriage is "that intimate union of life in complementarity between a man and a woman which is constituted in the freely contracted and publicly expressed indissoluble bond of matrimony and is open to the transmission of life”. (Preamble, B., Charter of the Rights of the Family)
An economy, grounded in Catholic social teaching, will not promote consumerism, but the dignity of the human person .
Holiday Commercialization and Consumerism
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A person who is concerned solely or primarily with possessing and enjoying – who can no longer subordinate his instincts - cannot be free. Materialism has grown fat in the U.S., nursed by a deep cultural consumerism.
Catholic Worker, New York City 1973. Dorothy Day morning mass and prayers
Will God Forgive an Abortion?
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“Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life”. However, “the Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy.” (CCC, 2272)
Catholic Social Teaching and Care for Nature
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Our 'common home' is more than just the natural environment - nor is it the environment in the most danger.
Tania Tetlow, President of Fordham University, addressed CAPP members and guests at the Pro-Pontifice Dinner
President Tetlow's Address to CAPP
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This is a wonderful community we bring together tonight. CAPP – US, our beloved Jesuits, members of the Fordham faculty and trustees, alumni and friends. I want to explain why it is so fitting that we come together.

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