When I was young, my old man warned me about the Sadness, a persistent and bitter melancholy common to our kin, a dismal heirloom passed down from father to son, mother to daughter. This unpromising inheritance was at the time…
Posted on 27 September 2010
When I was young, my old man warned me about the Sadness, a persistent and bitter melancholy common to our kin, a dismal heirloom passed down from father to son, mother to daughter. This unpromising inheritance was at the time…
Posted on 19 July 2008
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Humanae Vitae (On Human Life), the landmark encyclical of Pope Paul VI reaffirming the Church’s position against artificial contraception.
The so-called sexual revolution, now well into its 40s, has given…