It’s Time to Double Down on Casti Connubii
The Church would do well to revisit one of the most important and prophetic encyclicals of modern times.
The Church would do well to revisit one of the most important and prophetic encyclicals of modern times.
I worked at the Vatican’s Secretariat of State from 2007-2017. I’ll never forget the surprise on February 11, 2013, when Benedict announced his intention to retire.
When the press falsely quoted Cardinal Raymond Burke last May as stating that the Irish were “worse” than the pagans for having passed a referendum recognizing same-sex “marriage,” they missed an opportunity to offer a valuable lesson in history. What His Eminence actually said—namely, that while the “pagans may have tolerated homosexual behaviors, they never … Read more