Our Fear of the Real
We are dull, we are profane. We are holiness-blind; we see in secular gray.
We are dull, we are profane. We are holiness-blind; we see in secular gray.
I've said this many times. All you need to do to corrupt any group of human beings is to let them know that, as a group, they will be beyond criticism.
Many of us have heard expressed the formulaic regret by someone declining to attend an event: "Though I can't be there, I’ll be there with you in spirit!"
The New York Times recently ran a piece titled "Women's Unpaid Labor is Worth $10,900,000,000,000." It was exactly as cynical and one-sided as one might expect.
For public purposes, the body is being aborted.
St. Gregory tells us plainly: "We seemed to be two bodies with a single spirit." Centuries before, Aristotle defined friendship as "a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
At the Catholic Men's Fellowship Conference, Archbishop Charles Chaput challenged more than 1,300 men to remember how masculinity was lived in the past by faithful Christian men.
Manhood is not natural, but it is essential. No society can endure if it does not harness male sexual energy and teach men to take care of the children they father and the women who bear them.
How refreshing: C. S. Lewis’s prescription of natural law and objective values.
Who still reads the great French prophets of the 20th century?