Nancy Pelosi: Wayward Genius

Many are familiar with an item from one of the closing documents of the Second Vatican Council which gave a shout out to the feminine genius. Having praised women for their tremendous gifts and skills, it prophetically noted that they… Read More

“The End of Feminism”

While hysteria swirls around Sarah Palin, wife and mother of five, everyone would benefit by taking a large step back from the pandemonium in order to better perceive what is really happening. Her supporters rightly point to her affirmation of… Read More

The School of the Family

In the domestic church, children learn a variety of things. Sharing a bathroom with siblings can be frustrating but essential to the give-and-take necessary to communal living. Finding the box of a favourite cereal emptied and trashed is familiar terrain,… Read More

Going Deeper, Year by Year Appreciation for Mulieris Dignitatum Only Grows

[Editor's note: As the Vatican congress described below indicates, Holy Mother Church earnestly desires Catholic women to give attention this year to unpacking the riches of this Catholic teaching. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of John Paul's Letter on… Read More

Do We Really Want What Passes for Christmas?

Christians around the United States are faced with a mountain of evidence concerning dwindling faith.  This is not a new phenomenon, but the projection of a steady decline that has been in progress for decades.  Saints have been replaced with… Read More

An Assumption Day Announcement: Celebrating the Feminine Genius — an Anniversary!

Well, the bras have been burned and the ashes long-since scattered. The glass ceilings have been shattered, the girly magazines have become ho-hum, and the only unacceptable word in some circles is "virginity." We've come a long way, baby —… Read More

“The Saving Shards of Sacrifice” — Review of A Thousand Splendid Suns

Once one reads The Kite Runner, about two boys growing up in Afghanistan, the story remains seared on the soul. It cannot be "un-known" as much as parts of it wound the sensibilities — and with that tale Afghan-American novelist… Read More

Living the “Feminine Genius”

“Male and female He made them,” says the book of Genesis, introducing the reader to the two-sexed universe of God. It is a beautiful and wondrous thing to see the nuptial backdrop to creation, and in this time of confused… Read More

Reclaiming Fatherhood

The altercation took place outside after Mass one bright Sunday morning just before Christmas. “These are my people,” insisted one young priest. “No, they’re mine!” retorted the other, light-heartedly, but in earnest.
Guarding Their “Territory”
One was the assistant pastor… Read More

Two in One Flesh

Recently I had the privilege of speaking with a Polish priest who has lived in the United States for decades. Besides his duties at a very busy Marian shrine on the East Coast, he visits a nearby nursing home on… Read More

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