Category: Family

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.

All Day I Think About It

by Brother Elias Marechal | Nov 5, 2017 | Family, Featured, Recommended, Spirituality | 0 |

My cane has become more than a cane. It is my companion as I walk slowly toward the Light which awaits me on the other side of this world.

Culture Wars and the Tube: Homosexuality as Happy Ending

by Carl C. Curtis | Sep 15, 2017 | Culture, Ethics, Family, Featured, TV/Radio | 2 |

Our entertainment media too often depict one shining oasis of love and happiness: the homosexual union.

Project Joseph: A Rachel’s Vineyard Offers a New Program for Men Wounded by Abortion

by Kevin Burke | Jul 28, 2017 | Ethics, Family, Featured, Marriage, Social Teaching | 0 |

But Eileen Kuhlmann also learned of the unique suffering of men as fathers and considered the benefit of continued healing after the retreat in a group specially designed for fathers of aborted children.