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Serving Catholics for 25 Years
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| Note from the Managing Editor |
Recently I have been thinking about degrees of suffering. Our son Joseph (almost a year!) was born with a lymphatic malformation on his neck that deviated his airway. At a month old, he had major surgery to remove the majority of the malformation and at the same time was given a tracheostomy to protect his ability to breathe. We have various therapy appointments every day of the week, a few of which are at Los Angeles' Children's Hospital.
There are real challenges that come with caring for Joseph, chiefly the amount of time and energy it requires to take care of a little human being with extra medical needs. Self-pity can be tempting. But when we walk the halls of Children's Hospital and see other children and families with much greater challenges, I marvel at how easy we have it. How did we get so lucky?
Then reading about the atrocities being committed in Ukraine in The Pillar's "In Ukraine, 'God wipes away people's tears'," I can't begin to comprehend the level of suffering these people are enduring. "Large numbers of men and women who have never experienced war have been mobilized into the ranks of the Ukrainian army." The article tells of "a woman whose child was raped in front of her." On March 9, Russia bombed a maternity hospital and a woman and her baby died.
"Often, words don't mean anything," Fr. Yurii Zakharevych, chaplain in the local branch of Caritas in Kolomyia in western Ukraine, told The Pillar. "You can just take a person by the hand and cry with her. And the person already understands that she's not alone."
As Charles Lewis courageously says in "Really listen when Jesus speaks," "Death is not the last word."
Thank God for that. - Meaghen Gonzalez
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"We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong. We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world." - G.K. Chesterton
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| Seeing Beyond the Darkness |
| Blessed Hermann Lange, Dying We Live |
| When this letter comes to your hands, I shall no longer be among the living. |
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| How Men and Women See |
| Anthony Esolen, No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men |
| When speaking of differences between men and women, we must speak in general terms, because man and woman are more alike than unlike, and though they may strive to reach the true home of the soul by separate ways, yet the home is ultimately the same. |
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| Carrying My Spouse with Me |
| John Cuddeback, LifeCraft |
| "Likewise, you should know that you will be so close to your husband that wherever he goes he will carry the memory, recollection, and reminder of you. |
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| The Pious Mind of a Sacred Musician |
| OnePeter5 |
| Four hundred and fifty years ago, on May 13, 1572, Gregory XIII (whose original name was Ugo Boncompagni) was unanimously elected to the Chair of Peter. |
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| The lessons of Russian warmaking |
| Denver Catholic |
| Four and a half months after Russia invaded Ukraine on the Orwellian pretext of displacing a "Nazi" regime, what have we learned about, and from, the Russian way of war? |
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| Radical feminism and the roots of the godless "gender paradigm" |
| CWR |
| "In this book," says Abigail Favale, author of The Genesis of Gender, "I wanted to provide a crash course of sorts, an insider’s look at the implicit worldview of gender theory, so people are better able to recognize the underlying claims that are being made." |
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| Mutilating Our Bodies |
| First Things |
| There are many memorable moments in Matt Walsh's provocative new documentary What is a Woman? |
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