One of the most frequently quoted passages from Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's many writings is his famous assertion that the "only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely the saints the Church has produced and the art which has grown in her womb."
A woman can only navigate a world that demands self-ownership and self-authorship by neutering herself. What makes a woman’s body distinctively womanly isn't a high femme presentation but the potential for biological hospitality and self-gift.
As a teacher, I have met dozens of bright, beautiful, serious-minded young women keen on finding a husband, getting married, and starting a family.
If you're an American, you might not know much about a decades-long conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, two small countries located in the Caucasus region, where Europe and Asia meet.
Husbands and wives reflect on how 'Love ... bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things' (1 Cor 13:4; 7).
We're quite prone, in these days of political hysteria and fragility, to blow up discrete incidents—sensationally circulated on social media—into cosmic proportions.
Dear Reluctant Potential Dad. So, your wife wants another baby, but you are putting on the brakes. I understand.
"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again." - Will and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History (1968)
Jesus especially had in mind the conferral of the baptismal priesthood when he removed Moses' Deuteronomic concession of divorce.
The ideas underpinning our societal wreckage are much older than most of us realize. The blueprint for it was set centuries ago, going back to the earliest stages of the feminist movement...