Catholic Church

July 18, 2018

What Mothers Cannot Give to Their Sons

By Anthony Esolen, Catholic Education Resource Center - …how to stand straight and tall, to take severe criticism as you take a dose of pungent and cleansing medicine, to admit a mistake like a man, to shoulder your share of the work without grudging, and to do dangerous and exciting and head-clearing things with other men.

July 18, 2018

Meditating on This 15th Century Painter’s Works is a Sure Way to Grow Your Spiritual Life

By Peter Kwasniewski, LifeSiteNews - Fra Angelico (born Guido di Pietro, ca. 1395–February 18, 1455) was an Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having “a rare and perfect talent.” He was known to contemporaries as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole and Fra Giovanni Angelico. In modern Italian he is called il Beato Angelico, the “blessed angelic one.”

July 18, 2018

The Modern Miracle of Fatima

By Courtney Grogan, CNA - “Fatima is undoubtedly the most prophetic of modern apparitions. The first and second parts of the ‘secret’ . . . refer especially to the frightening vision of hell, devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Second World War, and finally the prediction of the immense damage that Russia would do to humanity by abandoning the Christian faith and embracing Communist totalitarianism,” wrote the former Secretary of the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith Tarcisio Bertone.

July 18, 2018

Humanae Vitae as an Answer to Our Culture

By Matthew B. Rose, Catholic Exchange - Marital love has four aspects to it: freedom, totality, faithfulness, and fruitfulness (HV, 9); it has two purposes: the union of the spouses and the procreation of children (HV, 12). Rejecting one of those aspects or purposes, as artificial contraception does, violates the marital act, and is unacceptable; “each and every marital act must of necessity retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life” (HV, 11).