January 14, 2011

Books

Single-issue Church?

The Church and AbortionA Catholic DissentGeorge Dennis O’BrienRowman and Littlefield, $29.95, 171 pp.

Daniel P. Sulmasy

We are witnessing an unprecedented era in church history, one in which a single moral teaching has become so important for the magisterium that it appears to many, both inside and outside the church, to be the central dogma of the faith. Two millennia ago, in the early church, even the practice of eating meat cooked in sacrifice to the Roman gods—an enormously divisive issueâ (...)


 

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