Category: Family

Perfection yet to be attained,
With layers left to be unfurled,
Her soul is cleansed while still detained,
Within the timeless Netherworld.

This state between eternity
And time, however short or long,
Endures between ubiquity
And place to keep a ghostly throng.

Torn Temple Veils: Recovery from Reproductive Loss

by Kevin Burke | May 10, 2019 | Family, Recommended | 0 |

Mary intimately understands the anguish of Mothers who have experienced the violent separation from their child.

My Father Was a Pedophile Who Abused Me for Years

by Elizabeth Shepherd Warynick | Aug 22, 2018 | Bishops, Family, Featured | 2 |

My father was a pedophile. I lived the horror of what he did to me behind closed doors.

Are Women Done With the Roman Catholic Church? A Reaction to the Grand Jury Report from Pennsylvania

by Marjorie Murphy Campbell | Aug 15, 2018 | Bishops, Family, Featured, Recommended | 4 |

Worse, the report demonstrates how the voice of women was systemically absent from critical decisions regarding the safety and protection of children.

God is Straight

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jun 9, 2018 | Culture, Education, Family, Marriage, Science, Scripture, Theology | 3 |

Homosexuality is not a state of being because it is not inherent to created nature. It does not participate in the absolute Being of He-Who-Is. Rather, it is a state of privation or of the absence of something that should exist. Homosexuality is a shadow or cavity in the soul.

But For ‘Ceremony’ Where Would We Be?

by Carl C. Curtis | May 21, 2018 | America, Family, Featured | 0 |

I am rather superstitious or maybe just suspicious that a world without manners, forms, and ceremonies is one step from anarchy.

Is Surrogacy a Violation of Human Rights?

by Marjorie Murphy Campbell | Apr 27, 2018 | Books, Ethics, Family, Featured | 0 |

Surrogacy is highly lucrative only for the professionals, not the women indentured as surrogates who tend to come from much lower economic circumstances and most often need money.

‘The Rider’ — A Film About Lives of Cowboys

by Charles A. Coulombe | Apr 24, 2018 | Conservatism, Family, Featured, Movies | 1 |

It is difficult to imagine such a film coming out of Hollywood today.

The Origin of Personhood

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Mar 25, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Family, Featured, Marriage, Science | 0 |

Supporters of abortion make one assertion for which they will be easily prosecuted and condemned: that human personhood begins at birth.

Can Culture Be Whatever?

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Feb 12, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Family, Manners | 0 |

Real culture does not incite the curiosity of the guilty, but the wonder of the innocent.

Prepare The Way of the Lord: Our World Needs Advent!

by Father Frank Pavone | Dec 1, 2017 | Christmas, Family, Featured, Spirituality | 0 |

Abortion continues to tear apart children in the womb, their families, and our whole society. Ours is a world that needs Advent, a world that needs Christ.