Marriage & Family

May 7, 2018

When California Is Right and Texas Is Wrong

By John Zmirak, The Stream - California’s Bishops Defend the First Amendment - So when I see the words “Conference of Bishops” occur all together, I want to wrap my head in tinfoil and stick it in the microwave. For once, however, that impulse was out of place! Remember the new California law censoring speech on gay orientation? Well, the California bishops did the right thing. In the right way. In partnership with the best people.
May 7, 2018

Trail Life USA: Raising Boys to be Men in the Age of Equality

By Nancy Flory, The Stream - The Boy Scouts are not just for boys anymore. Girls are allowed to join the Cub Scouts and they’ll be allowed to join the Boy Scouts next year. Of course girls who identify as boys are allowed to join. We shouldn’t be surprised. Many people say that boys and girls are the same and that giving boys a separate space creates inequality....
May 5, 2018

8 Parenting Lessons from St. Therese’s Mom

By Chaunie Brusie, Aleteia - The more I read about St. Therese’s mother, Zelie Martin (now a saint herself), primarily through her own book, The Mother of the Little Flower, the more I’ve learned that even she couldn’t do it all.... Here are some pretty surprising lessons that we can learn from the mother of the world’s most beloved saint...
May 5, 2018

A Re-Reading (Relectio) of “Humanae Vitae,” Part II

By E. Christian Brugger,  The Catholic Thing - Another way to phrase this is to say that unity and procreation are intrinsic goods of the marital act. They are its goods precisely because they are defining goods of marriage itself. Marriage is a unitive and procreative type of friendship. The sexual act that takes its name from that friendship – the marital act – is likewise a unitive and procreative type of act.

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