Marriage & Family
November 29, 2025
By Josh Hammer, The American Spectator - This holiday season, I’m thankful for my family — above all, my wife and our beautiful daughter, who is about to turn 1. I’m thankful for having found in recent years a resurgent commitment to the ancient religion of my forefathers. I’m thankful for my wonderful friends, who have helped serve as a stabilizing counter to the destructive political and social maladies of the day — some conspiratorial elements of which have targeted me personally. And I’m thankful to live in what still is, warts and all, the greatest country in the history of mankind.
November 25, 2025
By John M. Grondelski, Crisis Magazine - No small number of contemporary problems, big and small, are related to chastity and its contemporary lack. At the same time, one can imagine the level of global derision the pope would have faced had he actually picked this very pastorally salient topic for a synod... Which makes Sophia’s recent book—Fr. T.G. Morrow’s "Achieving Chastity in an Unchaste World"—all the more germane... Chastity has always been a challenge for human beings because we are bodily beings. Sensory impressions are powerful on bodily-spiritual creatures. ...
November 24, 2025
By Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative - This year, Thanksgiving is ours.... It all starts with a text: “Can’t wait to see everyone for Thanksgiving! Let’s be civil this year!” You remember last year, when someone “accidentally” sent your MAGA cap down the disposal. You know the text was not intended for your cousin who livestreams her dietary needs (“I guess no one remembers—again—I’m vegan.”) The text was aimed squarely at you, the family’s only conservative.
November 7, 2025
By Nancy Flanders, Live Action News - The dark truth of surrogacy: Creating children with 'no mother at all' ... A set of twins born in New York in 2023 have lived in a foster home since birth because the Department of Social Services determined they had no mother at all and should be considered wards of the state... MaryBeth Lewis awaited the arrival of twin babies — a boy and a girl — who were being carried by a surrogate in upstate New York. But there were problems. MaryBeth wasn't actually the biological mother of the babies, and her husband wasn't the biological father.
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