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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
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New Resources
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| | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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| | The intimate Michelangelo - James Hankins - The New Criterion
Fame often does an artist little good. |
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| | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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| | The Key to Unhappiness - Dennis Prager - Prager University
How many times have you heard someone say they want to make a better world? |
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| | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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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."
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.
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.
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.
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us
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