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Your vocation more important than ever!
Every woman—no matter her age or state of life—is a living, loving icon of the very Church that safeguards the means of salvation for all of mankind. If those we love, and those with whom we interact on a daily basis are unchurched, it is incumbent on us to make that mystical reality present to them.
Tension without Tension
In this season of joy, the Church proclaims that Christ is Risen, even as He bids us to stoop and console the grieving. We marvel at the empty tomb, while worrying about today’s pandemic and tomorrow’s school plan.
A monastic vocation
In denying herself the things of the world, a nun radically affirms the reality of both good and evil in the world. In entering the cloister, she frees herself to enter more deeply into the suffering of a suffering world.
Retrograde law in Egypt
An Egyptian woman is a legally incapacitated person who has no right to travel outside the country or manage her own children’s basic affairs without a man’s prior consent, according to a new personal status draft law that recently caused uproar across Egypt.
The Myriad Harms of Surrogacy
Beyond the moral problems related to the conception of surrogate children and the subsequent evils of “fetal reductions,” there are the emotional scars suffered by both gestational mothers and babies, and the stress on all relationships involved.
Archives
Here are links to years of content scattered throughout the web. (I’d like to say that, despite appearances, my mind is still quite orderly!)
War of a Another Kind
Like the biological cell, the strength of the nuclear family, as the Church understands it, depends on its various ingenious elements.
The Victims of Confused Thinking
The problem my pastor friend faces is how to counsel parents of teenage girls who will not drink anything before going to school lest they have to use the bathrooms that are now open to teenage boys who think—or claim—to have been born in the wrong bodies.
Hope for caregivers
“It is deeply disturbing that we are deliberately killing patients based on a diagnosis that is wrong almost half of the time” (Bobby Schindler).
Mary: Mother of the New Creation
“He who sits above the Cherubim is now held in a woman’s arms. He whom the whole world cannot contain, Mary alone embraces” (Saint Ephraem).
“Don’t poke the bear”
That’s the mantra here in the Boston area (go Bruins!) but I had a great encounter with Bear Woznick. Click here to listen to our interview.
“Commodified instead of cherished”
Eleanor Gaetan has summarised in heroic form all the reasons that sex trafficking should not be countenanced, much less legalised, with two excellent but divergent examples: the Netherlands where it is legal, and Sweden where it is not.
