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Serving Catholics for 25 Years
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One of the reasons why I value CERC is that we do essential work—bringing you pieces that speak the truth boldly.
When we are so beset by lies, every voice that speaks the truth is like a blast of bracing air, sending clouds scudding and piercing our eyes with sanctifying light.
One such piece is Jennifer Roback Morse's introduction to Leila Miller's book The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak.
"Kids are resilient. Parents who don't get along do their kids no favor by staying married. Everyone has a right to be happy, which means the right to change sex partners more or less at will."
Those are lies. A fantasy that has been perpetuated at the cost of children. It's time to shatter that fantasy.
Read the full piece here. God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez, Editor
Image: The Martyrdom of Saint Clement by Fungai, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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"Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world." - Pope Benedict XVI
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| The Key to Entering God's Presence |
| Fr. Donald Haggerty, Conversion |
| The explicit idea of a "second conversion" in the spiritual life was first broached by a Jesuit in the 1600s, Father Louis Lallemant, a novice master in France to one of the future North American martyrs, Saint John de Brébeuf. |
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| The Divorce Fantasy World |
| Jennifer Roback Morse, Leila Miller |
| When I published Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak several years ago, I asked Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse of The Ruth Institute to write the Foreword. |
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| Liberty, Modulo |
| Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing |
| Because Catholicism is incarnational, it strives to become inculturated in whatever culture it is found, like yeast and like salt. |
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| Priests in the Public Square |
| Noelle Mering, National Catholic Register |
| Faithful young priests are such a contradiction to the sexual revolution that their very presence invites the world to consider the supernatural. |
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| Preparing for Advent |
| Margaret Bereit |
| Advent is upon us, a sacred time in the Church where we open our hearts to the coming of Christ. |
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| When Love Seems Impossible |
| Plough |
| Working in war zones tests my commitment to nonviolence daily. It's the survivors who show me the way. |
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| What Happened To The ACLU |
| First Things |
| The new generation of left-wing "woke" lawyers is trying to impose on the American justice system the attitude to the law that prevails in Communist countries, where the most important question in any trial is whether a person belongs to a favored class, and where rights such as free speech and the presumption of innocence are derided as bourgeois proceduralism. |
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| Memento mori: A good motto for preparing to give birth |
| Radiant Magazine |
| As I wait through the last weeks of pregnancy with our first child, a daughter, I contemplate living in constant preparation, both for birth and for the eventual time of my own death, acknowledging that I do not know the day nor the hour. |
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| The Grave Sin of Jew-Hatred |
| First Things |
| If divine law and human reason condemn hatred of anyone who is "Other" simply because of who he or she is, then even more so do they condemn the irrational and too-often lethal hatred of the People to whom God first made his promises. |
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| A Drag Show at Notre Dame |
| First Things |
| The Catholic university defended the event, citing the "principle of academic freedom." The controversy has raised an important question: To what extent can a Catholic university rely on academic freedom as its core educational principle? |
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| Satan Comes to Georgetown |
| First Things |
| The student-run university Lecture Fund brought the leaders of the Satanic Temple to campus for a public event. |
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| In Defense of Bird Names |
| The American Conservative |
| Why the rich historical names given to birds should not be scrubbed for the sake of political correctness. |
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| War in our world |
| Seasons of Community Living |
| How we are struggling to process world events from our "secure" perspectives. |
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