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Culture Wars and the Tube: Homosexuality as Happy Ending

by Carl C. Curtis | Sep 15, 2017 | Culture, Ethics, Family, Featured, TV/Radio | 0 |

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.

A New Book For Children Explaining Sin Without Being Another “Sin Story”

by Elizabeth Pham | Jun 17, 2017 | Books, Family, Featured, Theology | 0 |

I wanted to explain why God allows us to sin. So I wrote a story— a story about Adam and Eve— a story about Cain and Abel— a story about Lucifer.

James Dean: Rebel With a Traditional Cause

by Carl C. Curtis | May 31, 2017 | Culture, Family, Featured, Movies | 0 |

However, when I finally decided to sit through Rebel Without a Cause, I discovered, much to my surprise, an oddly conservative statement.

Marriage and Household as “Skete” – Midway Between Solitude and Community

by Rev. Kevin Bezner | May 28, 2017 | Catholic Church, Eastern Church, Faith, Family, Featured, Marriage, Saints, Spirituality | 0 |

The idea of the skete is based on Our Lord’s words to the Apostles: “For where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them.” (Mt 18:20, RSV)

How To Help Others With Mental Illness

by Mike Eisenbath | May 23, 2017 | Family, Featured, Friendship, Psychology, Spirituality | 0 |

If you already know that you suffer from a mental illness, don’t be shy about sharing your story with people. That’s the best way to increase awareness and erase the stigma.

Father Gabriel Bunge Explores Spiritual Fatherhood in the Early Church

by Rev. Kevin Bezner | May 13, 2017 | Books, Catholic Church, Eastern Church, Family, Featured, Friendship, Saints, Spirituality, Theology | 0 |

All spiritual directors are guides, but few are spiritual fathers. A spiritual father must be an ascetic because it is through long years of ascetical practice…..

A Son’s Love for His Mother Becomes a Musical Masterpiece

by Deal Hudson | May 8, 2017 | Family, Featured, Music | 0 |

What Stephen Edwards has composed will become contemporary Requiem of choice to those who seek beauty first.

It’s Opening Day! An Ode to America’s Pastime

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Apr 3, 2017 | America, Culture, Family, Featured, Sports | 0 |

No graceful movement in ballet
Can equal a six-four-three double-play.

No Place on Earth Is Home for the Christian

by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Feb 26, 2017 | America, Catholic Church, Culture, Eastern Church, Family, Featured, Literature | 1 |

My mother, unlike me, always knew her home. She carried it in her heart wherever we lived before we moved to the small town across the river from the city where she was born.

Reflective and Revealing: Pope Benedict XVI’s Last Testament – A Review

by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Dec 16, 2016 | Books, Catholic Church, Family, Featured, Popes, Theology | 3 |

What Benedict says about his successor, Pope Francis, is gracious and supportive, which is as it should be. This, it seems, is more the result of Benedict’s humility than decorum.

Pope Francis: Answer the Four Cardinals

by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Dec 2, 2016 | Bishops, Catholic Church, Faith, Family, Featured, Liturgy, Marriage, Popes, Science, Spirituality, Theology | 8 |

The cardinals have taken a necessary and courageous step in an effort to protect the holiness of the Church, its faithfulness to the teachings of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, and its faithfulness to the Church’s traditional teachings on faith and morals that have Our Lord’s teachings through Scripture and tradition as a foundation.