The Journalist’s First Loyalty: Truth in the Service of the Human Person
© 2026 Victor R. Claveau, MJ When Christ stood before Pilate, He declared that He had come into the world “to bear witness to the truth” (John 18:37). Pilate knew that Jesus was innocent, yet, political expediency, public pressure, and institutional self-preservation prevailed. The Passion thus reveals an enduring danger: truth may be known but […]
Question: What is the Catholic Church’s teaching on pornography?
Victor R. Claveau, MJ Answer: From the Catholic perspective, pornography is always gravely immoral. The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines it as removing real or simulated sexual acts from the partners’ intimacy in order to display them deliberately to others. It: perverts the intimate self-giving proper to marriage; transforms human persons into objects of […]
Question: Which religions in the world advocate or support Lesbian and/or Homosexual activity?
Victor R. Claveau, MJ Answer: Several religious denominations and movements officially accept—and sometimes actively promote—consensual same-sex relationships, same-sex sexual relations within committed partnerships, and same-sex marriage. It would be inaccurate, however, to say that Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, or Hinduism as a whole supports homosexual activity. The support generally comes from particular denominations or progressive […]
Every Believer Has Received Gifts from God: Stewardship of Divine Grace
2026 Victor R. Claveau, MJ From the opening pages of Sacred Scripture, God reveals Himself as the source of every good gift. Humanity is created in His image and likeness, endowed with abilities, opportunities, and resources that reflect His goodness and providence. Throughout salvation history, God distributes His blessings in diverse ways. Some individuals possess […]
The Divine Comedy and Catholic Eschatology
2026 Victor R. Claveau, MJ Among the great works of Christian literature, few have exercised as profound an influence upon the Catholic imagination as The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Written in the early fourteenth century, the poem presents a spiritual pilgrimage through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Heaven (Paradiso), culminating in the vision of […]
Light over the Scaffold and Cell 18: The Redemption of Jacques Fesch — A Catholic Moral Narrative
2026 Victor R. Claveau, MJ Few modern Catholic testimonies illustrate the transformative power of divine grace more vividly than the prison writings collected in Light over the Scaffold: Prison Letters of Jacques Fesch and Cell 18: Unedited Letters of Jacques Fesch, edited and preserved by Augustin-Michel Lemonnier. These letters do not present the story of […]
The Ethics of Assisted Suicide: A Catholic Moral Analysis
2026 Victor R. Claveau, MJ Among the most profound questions confronting modern society is whether a person may intentionally hasten his own death with the assistance of another. Advances in medicine have prolonged human life, alleviated many forms of suffering, and transformed the experience of dying. At the same time, these developments have generated new […]
Do No Harm, Medical Ethics, and the Catholic Moral Tradition: A Narrative Reflection on the Care of Children Experiencing Gender Dysphoria
2026 Victor R. Claveau, MJ The ancient maxim primum non nocere—“first, do no harm”—has long occupied a central place in the moral imagination of medicine. Though not found verbatim in the Hippocratic Oath, the principle expresses a fundamental truth recognized by physicians, philosophers, and theologians throughout history: the healer must never intentionally inflict injury upon […]
Mental and Spiritual Depression: A Catholic Moral Narrative
©2016 Victor R. Claveau, MJ Mental and spiritual depression has accompanied humanity since the fall of our first parents. Sacred Scripture, the lives of the saints, and the teachings of the Church reveal that profound sadness, discouragement, desolation, and even despair have touched many of God’s faithful servants. The Catholic faith does not deny the […]
Black Catholic History
©2026 Victor R. Claveau, MJ Black Catholic history is not a recent chapter added to the story of Christianity. It is woven into the very origins of the Church founded by Jesus Christ. Long before Christianity reached many parts of Europe, the Gospel had already taken root in Africa. The history of Black Catholics begins […]