Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Rearing Slaves, Rearing Sons
You’ve heard the horror stories about the schools: kindergartens with a dose of amoral sex education; teachers…
Dear Pope Francis: Remember the Standers
Pope Francis has spoken often about the problem of family breakdown. “The family is the fundamental cell…
Residual Entities
The Coup at Catholic University: The 1968 Revolution in American Catholic Education by Fr. Peter Mitchell Ignatius,…
How to Preach About Bruce Jenner
Should pastors grease the Kardashian celebrity machine by mentioning Bruce Jenner from the pulpit? There are good…
The Psychologization of Everything
The enormous Duggar family has been in the public eye since their TLC reality series, 19 Kids…
Is Vice More Interesting than Virtue?
Since at least the age of Milton, whose Satan in Paradise Lost allegedly outmatches the other characters in…
Maury’s Silent Majority
Maury’s struggling to stay in character. Normally he’s the picture of paternal stability: amused but not belittling,…
The Catholic Church’s German Crisis
The twenty-first-century Church owes a lot to twentieth-century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the…
It’s Vespers Somewhere
Drinking with the Saints: The Sinner’s Guide to a Holy Happy Hour michael p. foley regnery, 487…
China’s New Consumerism
On a chilly afternoon last October, as my son and I walked through a bustling shopping district…
Marriage and Dignity
Recent arguments at the Supreme Court revealed deep confusion about the nature of dignity. Arguing that “the marriage…
Notre Dame’s Core Curriculum Review
Much has already been written on the University of Notre Dame’s current core curriculum review—and on its…
Loved Through Eternity
I wasn’t going to say anything further about being adopted, not beyond what I’ve said before. The…
Remembering Number 84
He scored forty times in an eight-year NFL career, best known, now, for the touchdown he didn’t…
NCAA Announces New Commission to Apply Fouling Rules to Religious Freedom Disputes
NCAA President Mark Emmert has announced a new commission to study how its handling of fouls called…
