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"Original sin attempts to abolish fatherhood...placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man only with a sense of the master-slave relationship." - Saint Pope John Paul II


New Resources


 
 Conception and Knowledge - Caryll Houselander - from Wood of the Cradle, Wood of the Cross: The Little Way of the Infant Jesus 

If our Lady knew God before she had conceived her Son, how much more intimately she knew him afterwards, when the Holy Spirit had descended on her.
 

 He Has Lifted Up the Lowly - Anthony Esolen - Magnificat 

The boys in the loft raised their pure and unearthly voices to the arches above, resounding throughout the vast Cathedral.
 

 The intimate Michelangelo - James Hankins - The New Criterion 

Fame often does an artist little good.
 

 About Our Epidemic of Sexual Aggression - Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons, M.D. - The Catholic Thing 

The current revelations of an epidemic of sexually aggressive behaviors (SAB) against women, particularly by men in the media over many decades, has led to calls to address this highly prevalent "disease" in our culture.
 

 Spiritual Reading Arms Us for Battle - Vicki Burbach - chapter one ofHow to Read Your Way to Heaven: A Spiritual Reading Program for the Worst of Sinners, the Greatest of Saints, and Everyone in Between 

Spiritual reading arms us for all those daily battles with negativity, temptation, and sin, filling our minds, hearts, and souls with truth, building us in Christ, and strengthening us for combat.
 

 The Key to Unhappiness - Dennis Prager - Prager University 

How many times have you heard someone say they want to make a better world?
 

 Canada's Slippery Suicide Slope - Charles Lewis - The National Catholic Register 

A government-appointed panel is reviewing the country's 17-month-old law on medically assisted death, assessing whether it should be extended to teens and the mentally ill.
 

 Bishop Jean Dubois - Father George W. Rutler - From the Pastor 

Saint Catherine of Siena said that all the way to Heaven is already Heaven for those who love the Lord.



Editorials of Interest


Pope Francis: Think 'being good' is enough? It's not. Go to Mass - Catholic World Report

Participating in the Eucharistic communion with Jesus here on earth helps us to anticipate heaven, where it will be "Sunday without sunset": no more tears, grief, or pain, but only "the joy of living fully and forever with the Lord."
 

Bishop Robert Morlino on controversy: "Only what is true can ultimately be pastoral." - Catholic World Report

The Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, who has been under fire from various homosexual activist groups and media outlets, stresses that anyone with "same-sex attraction is a child of God, that God died for him or her, that such a person has a heavy cross to carry and our job is to help them carry it, not to kick them when they're down."
 

Should the sixth petition of the Our Father be translated as "Do not let us fall"? - Catholic World Report

And is the English rendering "do not lead us into temptation" bad theology? Here's why the answer to both questions is no.
 

Catholic of the Year: A generous man in a mean world - Catholic Herald

The undercover nuns, the new Stabat Mater, the soup kitchen and the heart-wrenching exhibition have one thing in common — or, rather, one person.
 

Catholic Churches to Men: "You're Not Welcome Here." - Those Catholic Men

If we consider the most basic practice of Catholics, going to Mass, we are only "graduating" about 30% of men. I'm no statistician, but I'm pretty sure that is not the model of sustainability.
 

Father Callam goes to the movies - Catholic World Report

A Catholic Goes to the Movies provides readers with an interpretive paradigm that they can use to decode the moral and philosophical assumptions of any movie they happen to watch, whether Catholic or secular, art film or blockbuster, romantic comedy or horror flick.
 

Late Term Abortion on Healthy Moms and Babies: America's Dirty Little SecretHuman Life Review

The evidence continues to pile up that late-term abortions on healthy infants are legal and happening regularly. Yet somehow it seems to escape public notice.
 

Big toy store will lose a projected $2.7 million to put family first this Christmas Eve - Aleteia

A UK retailer says he believes it's more important to honor the real meaning of the holiday.
 

Russia's population declines once more - Mercatornet

There were over 100,000 more deaths than births in the Federation between January and October 2017.
 

Why Hasn't This Ladder On The Holy Sepulchre Been Moved in 300 Years? The Curious Case of the Immovable Ladder - uCatholic

The Status Quo is an agreement among religious communities concerning nine shared religious sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem which states that for any changes to be made at any of the religious sites, all those who lay claim to the site must agree
 

How Gregorian chant enhances the Mass - The Catholic Herald

Gregorian chant is recovering in popularity and soon may once again be heard in every parish.
 

As an Ex-Gay Cradle Catholic, I Know the Devastation That Awaits Those Who Follow Fr. James Martin - The Stream

I grew up in a Catholic milieu that was nothing if not gay-friendly. And I paid quite a price for that.
 

I'm a Pediatrician. Here's What I Did When a Little Boy Patient Said He Was a Girl. - The Daily Signal

Human sexuality is binary. You either have a normal Y chromosome, and develop into a male, or you don't, and you will develop into a female. An identity is not biological, it is psychological.
 

The morality of having children - Mercatornet

For the sake of the planet, should we be having fewer kids?
 

The Moral Limits of Consent - Catholic.com

Valid consent, therefore, is not valid by the mere fact of consent. It requires a preexisting right to authorize a course of action.
 

The Truth about Men, Women, and Sex - Public Discourse

Recent revelations about sexual harassment, assault, and abuse underscore certain blunt realities about men, women, and sex. How can we confront those realities in a way that leads to less sexual violence?
 

Want to Stop Sexgate 2017? Stop Feminism. - Catholic Vote

The alleged actions of these individuals are actually perfectly consistent with feminism — an ideology that degrades women while claiming to support them.
 

Balancing Humility and Ambition for the Inner Ring - Crisis Magazine

It's true community we should be striving for, one where differences are respected and make the whole stronger, not the Inner Ring, where everyone must think and do the same.
 

An Integrated Humanist - First Things

Democracy, if not Western civilization, depends on recovering the old arts or "ways" of learning, the so-called liberal arts.
 

The answer to the 4 wordless questions we're constantly asking - Aleteia

It's the unspoken things that communicate to a friend or loved one that they matter tremendously to us.
 

Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and
St. Justin Martyr, pray for us

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