Mr Rochester’s First Wife

Mr Rochester’s First Wife

There is so much to love about the writing of Charlotte Brontë, and her novel Jane Eyre (1847) is of course, marvelous. How true her words near the outset: Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the...
Take five

Take five

I highly recommend taking five minutes to watch this trailer, which introduces an excellent movie, “seven years in the making, SEXUAL REVOLUTION seeks to examine the effects of the free-love experiment of the hippie generation and the prophetic encyclical,...
carefully assessing INVOcell

carefully assessing INVOcell

Sister Renée Mirkes takes a careful look at a new medical response to infertility that claims to be in accord with Catholic teaching, explaining how it differs from IVF, the moral implications involved, and the options available to infertile couples seeking to become...
Disposing of disposable partners

Disposing of disposable partners

There are a lot of clever observations in this piece by Ann Farmer (“Sexual Revolution: Is the Honeymoon Over?”) which shows that replacing the deep desire for love with the shallow pleasures of lust is unworkable. Despite the best efforts of the sexual...
The power of story

The power of story

I love this personal account by Jenny Uebbing, who began her trek back to her childhood faith after hearing the personal story of Dr Scott Hahn. And now she tells her story, because as people we are wired for stories. The stories of the saints are gripping, as are...