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By Vincent J. Cannato, The Catholic Thing - Growing up in the New York metro area in the 1970s and early 1980s, the work of art I heard my parents discuss most often was Michelangelo’s Pietà. The famous sculpture, which resides inside St. Peter’s in Rome, features a beatific and serene Mary seated with the body of the crucified Jesus sprawled across her lap, evoking the great suffering of his death. The sculptor was able to draw out from the marble the intense emotions of pity and sorrow of a mother who has just lost her child. ...

By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine - Perhaps there is no better test of the health of a culture than the way that it treats its children. The Canaanites sacrificed their own infants to Moloch; the Carthaginians slaughtered children to Baal; and the Aztecs and Mayans sacrificed children to feed their demonic gods until the Christian conquistadors put an end to the barbarism. Now, in our self-proclaimed “post-Christian” culture, mothers slaughter their own children on the altars erected to their own narcissistic self-empowerment or the narcissistic self-empowerment of their no-strings-attached sexual partners. ...