Reviewing the Standard Days Method: Eight Perspectives Archbishop Antonio J. Ledesma, S.J., D.D. Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro As a recently developed method of natural family planning, the Standard Days Method (SDM) has been the subject of much discussion and debate...

RELATIVISM: THE CENTRAL PROBLEM FOR FAITH TODAY Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gave this address during the meeting of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith with the presidents of the...

THE DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM Pope Benedict XVI A conversation with Peter Seewald In his futuristic novel Brave New World, the British author Aldous Huxley had predicted in 1932 that falsification would be the decisive element of modernity. In a false reality with...

At present there is a raging debate about the so-called Reproductive Health (RH) Bill. The Church correctly says ‘no’ to the RH bill but she must not forget to announce a louder ‘yes’ to Natural Family Planning (NFP). There are many methods of modern NFP available...

RH Bill vs. Five Levels of Self-Transcendence W. Ysaac, S.J. The Reproductive Health (RH) bill is “a mindset and a value system” that are “secularist, materialistic, individualistic and hedonistic in the guise of development and modernity.” Thus, according to the CBCP...

During the Theological Forum on “Theological Views on Religions and Cultures” held last July 21-23, 2011 at the Loyola School of Theology, Fr. James Kroeger, M.M., Professor of Systematic Theology and Missiology at LST, delivered a paper entitled, “An...

The Reproductive Health (RH) bill is “a mindset and a value system” that are “secularist, materialistic, individualistic and hedonistic in the guise of development and modernity.” Thus, according to the CBCP statement during the “dialogue” meeting last May 10, 2011...

A thoughtful perusal of the Acts and Decrees of the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines will show there are two basic and central topics that were the foundation and presupposition of the reflections and discussions of the Council: Christology and Ecclesiology....

The following pages contain the corrections introduced by the Congregation for Bishops into the text of the PCP II Resolutions as found in the Acts and Resolutions of the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines and as sent to Rome for review and approval...