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June 9, 2026
By Nathan Kreider, Catholic Exchange - My wife once heard some excellent advice: look for men who want to be husbands, not for men who just want wives... Having a wife is tremendous. She provides encouragement and emotional support. She turns a house into a home. She is a companion to share your interests and struggles with, and she’s a key part to starting your own family. It’s no surprise then that the great majority of single men hope to get married. ...
June 9, 2026
By Elizabeth Yore, Substack - the previous Pope Leo XIII was deeply dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He diligently promoted the Sacred Heart devotion throughout his papacy and even issued a magnificent encyclical, Annum Sacrum in 1899, consecrating the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus... Along comes the latest, Leo, the XIV, in his Vatican June Prayer intention offers an invitation for Catholics to pray 'for the values of sports,' that all sport may promote peace, fraternity and communion. What’s going on? Is this the new Synodal Gospel of FIFA or the Super Bowl of Sustainability? ...
June 9, 2026
By David G Bonagura, Jr., The Catholic Thing - At a time when non-practicing Catholics outnumber the practicing 4 to 1, Church leaders should encourage any expression of legitimate beauty in the Church that can inspire faith – even if a particular form is not exactly to their taste. For if beauty awakens us to redemption and transcendence, it leads us to God, as Pope St. John Paul II promised young people at World Youth Day in 2000: “It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted.”
June 9, 2026
By Samantha Stephenson, Public Discourse - Is it ethical to alter the genetic makeup of children? Should we create children with three parents? What about creating sperm from female stem cells to the end of creating a child with two biological mothers? Is it ethical to incubate a growing baby in an artificial womb? Could a womb like that end the perceived need for abortion?... These questions might seem like science fiction, and indeed they were when Aldous Huxley, an agnostic, published his dystopian novel Brave New World nearly one hundred years ago. Huxley wove a fictitious world in which progeny were designed and grown in laboratories ....
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