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The Need for the Madonna in Reforming Our Culture, by Joseph K. Woodard – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Need for the Madonna in Reforming Our Culture, by Joseph K. Woodard

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“Virgin and Child” (The Tallard Madonna, c. 1510) by Giorgione. (Image: WikiArt.org)

By Joseph K. Woodard, Catholic World Report, October 12, 2025

Joseph K. Woodard is a Research Fellow with the new Gregory the Great Institute in Alberta, and moderates online Great Books seminars with Angelicum Academy. He accumulated degrees from the University of Alberta, Dalhousie University, St. John’s College, and Claremont Graduate School (PhD). He then invested fifteen years as an academic, fifteen as a journalist, and eleven as a Canadian federal tribunal judge, while helping (ineptly) his one wife Kathy to raise their ten children.

Only Christian civilization achieved a prodigious overturning of men’s natural drives by insisting on the dignity of women as such, founded in motherhood.

Detail from “Madonna del Rosario” by Simone Cantarini (1612-48) [Wikipedia]

As Tom Holland’s 2021 book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World reveals, in every past civilization (even our Greco-Roman forbearers), women were either commodities, guarded by their families as dynastic assets, or simply booty, “sex objects”—as were their children.

The birth of God into history as a real baby of a real mother changed all that. Only Christian civilization achieved a prodigious overturning of men’s natural drives by insisting on the dignity of women as such, founded in motherhood.

Most astounding, in chivalry, devotion to the Madonna taught the manly virtues of chastity, monogamy, and reverence for women to testosterone-charged, rape-loving young Germanic warriors. ….

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The Need for the Madonna in Reforming Our Culture, by Joseph K. Woodard

Saint of the Day for October 14: Saint Carlo Acutis (May 3, 1991 – Oct. 12, 2006)

Don’t Rush the Silence: Rediscovering Stillness in Mass, by Regis Martin

By Joseph K. Woodard, Catholic World Report, October 12, 2025

Only Christian civilization achieved a prodigious overturning of men’s natural drives by insisting on the dignity of women as such, founded in motherhood.

As Tom Holland’s 2021 book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World reveals, in every past civilization (even our Greco-Roman forbearers), women were either commodities, guarded by their families as dynastic assets, or simply booty, “sex objects”—as were their children.

The birth of God into history as a real baby of a real mother changed all that. Only Christian civilization achieved a prodigious overturning of men’s natural drives by insisting on the dignity of women as such, founded in motherhood.

Most astounding, in chivalry, devotion to the Madonna taught the manly virtues of chastity, monogamy, and reverence for women to testosterone-charged, rape-loving young Germanic warriors. ….

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