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| Note from the Managing Editor |
Father's Day is this coming Sunday, June 19th and we have curated a selection of articles in honor of good men and manliness. (I intended to share a couple quotes with my husband and ended up reading the entire pieces aloud!)
First is Anthony Esolen's "No Fathers, No Hope." "Fathers are the 'great adventurers of the modern world' … [they] bring into the world an immortal soul — another human life, another being that is more beautiful and more complex than all the physical universe besides."
In "On the Masculine Genius," Greg Bottaro meticulously explains the biological differences between man and woman and how that leads to a masculine and feminine genius. Here's one fascinating fact:"During the last stage of pregnancy, male testosterone levels decrease over 20% and prolactin levels increase 33%. Researchers believe that pheromones released by the mother help to initiate these shifts in the father's brain. Prolactin helps fathers respond more sensitively to their newborn babies. Their hearing sensitivity increases as does their empathic response." In "What a Woman Can Do, and a Man Should See," another of John Cuddeback's wonderful pieces investigating what it is to be a man, he encourages husbands to be present when their wives give birth. "You can be for her, uniquely, what she and your child so call for you to be. Present, loving, strong. There might not be anything else for you to do. But is that not already very much?"
Finally, I highly recommend Francis Maier's recent commencement address at Thomas More College, a message of encouragement and hope. "We moderns tend to think that the era of the saints is over. But we're wrong. It's always the era of the saints."
Thank you to all those who donated during our Eastertide campaign, and God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez
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"If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer, and my banker to do so." - G.K. Chesterton
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| The Blessed Trinity and Us |
| Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Knowing the Love of God: Lessons from a Spiritual Master |
| Saint John writes, And eternal life is this: to know you, the only true God (Jn 17:3). |
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| Poor but Not Yet Dead |
| David Warren, The Catholic Thing |
| At the root of modern judicial theory, or at least in its vicinity, is the question of Money. |
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| No Fathers, No Hope |
| Anthony Esolen, Law & Liberty |
| "The inexpressible sadness which emanates from great cities," says Gabriel Marcel in Homo Viator (1952), "a dismal sadness which belongs to everything that is devitalized, everything that represents a self-betrayal of life, appears to me to be bound up in the most intimate fashion with the decay of the family." |
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| On the Masculine Genius |
| Greg Bottaro, Humanum |
| Many attempts have been made to define the feminine, and more recently, the masculine genius. |
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| People Are Decisive |
| Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing |
| For most of my adult life I've carried around a quotation from Mao Zedong. |
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| Fighting for life in the Golden State |
| The Pillar |
| What is the Church doing to prepare for what comes next in those states that want to become "abortion magnets"? And what can Catholics do to get involved? |
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| A Christian Response to Pride Month |
| Theology of Home |
| Decades of messaging have all but canonized radical sexual autonomy as identical with courage and liberation. It is a creed that reduces and redefines the human person and names them by their sin. Incumbent on the Christian, is to love the person and resist the revolution. |
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