Traditionally, some dioceses and religious orders have celebrated the beautiful feast of the Espousals of Joseph and Mary on January 23. Its placement in the calendar toward the end of Christmastide is appropriate as we have already celebrated Christmas, the … Continue reading
Category: Marriage and Family
Highly Instructive 24-Minute Talk by C. Joseph Doyle: ‘Attack on Marriage and the Family’
On June 23, 2022, The Fatima Center held an evening conference with C. Joseph Doyle and David Rodriguez in Massachusetts, USA. Here is Joe Doyle’s typically informative presentation, “Attack on Marriage and the Family”: Joe framed his talk in terms … Continue reading
My Two Talks at the Crusade Congress: ‘Christendom’s Building Blocks, Catholic Communities’
This past Spring, I was in Louisiana for The CRUSADER Knight Congress. , which had as its theme, “Upon These Rocks: Building Christian Communities from the Rubble of Modernity.” The two following embedded files are hosted on Gloria.TV, a Catholic YouTube … Continue reading
The New Barbarism
When I was a young man I imagined that the end of a civilization would be dramatic. It turns out to be a lot less than that. The defense of an ancient city finally collapsing after a long siege and … Continue reading
Reply to David Albert Jones on Male Infant Circumcision
This article deserves an introduction, or at least an explanation. In December of 2016, I authored “Circumcision: An Acceptable Practice?,” which was edition 283 of my fortnightly Ad Rem. Around that time, I also interviewed Dr. David Lang on the same … Continue reading
The Summit Conference You Didn’t Hear About
It’s been a time since regular visitors to the SBC website last saw a new article by me and a number of excellent developments have taken place during it. Indeed, there have been too many to discuss all of them … Continue reading
Why Catholics Should Not Marry Non-Catholics
Good advice on a Church mandate not just a counsel. However, I wish that the author of this excellent article had not used that compromising term “significant other.” Catholic Herald, Peter D. Williams: We find ourselves approaching the end of … Continue reading
Ignoring Church Teaching
Here is a question for any reader who is a lifelong Catholic younger than 50: Have you ever heard a homily preached against the evil of contraception? My guess is that you have not. I know that I never have … Continue reading
Science vs. God
Modern man derives much of his sense of himself as master of all he surveys from science and technology in general, but nothing feeds his notion of being the master of life itself more than the new birth technologies. They … Continue reading
The Aftermath of Humanae Vitae
Humanae vitae, Blessed Pope Paul VI’s encyclical reaffirming the Church’s defense of the sanctity of human life, was promulgated fifty years ago this year. It was dated July 25, 1968. When July rolls around later this year I shall have … Continue reading
Is Marriage a Vocation?
When we Catholics speak of the different options that are open before us in how to live our lives — priesthood, religious life, married life, single in the world — we commonly, at least nowadays, speak of these as “vocations.” … Continue reading