By my friend Vermavkv @WordPress. In life, one person stands outâmy mother. She represents love, resilience, and guidance. As I think about the [Wordpress] prompt, âDescribe a person who has positively impacted your life,â her influence comes to the forefront of my mind. Mothers, often the unsung heroes in the background of our lives, possess a quiet… Read More A Quiet and Extraordinary Power đ¸
Sirach 3 Duties to Parents 3 Children, listen to me; I am your father. Do what I tell you and you will be safe, 2 for the Lord has given fathers authority over their children and given children the obligation to obey their mothers. 3 If you honor your father, you can make up for… Read More “Never seek honor for yourself at your father’s expense”
âThe Patriarchsâ of the ten tribes are men whose God-given task, even to risking death, is to protect family, especially women and daughters when in danger; because woman carries the very future in her womb. Hierarchy in Church and family has no retirement or expiration date. But even many so-called conservative (or ‘Trad’) couples are… Read More Abiding Patriarchy
Radical Feminism as we know it today has been a trick almost from the beginning with many philosophical subtexts* written into every “advance” of its development. The corporate strategy has largely been: make children and families appear to be âoppressionâ (the home a jail instead of a nest) and keep everyone fâking every which way… Read More The Radical Feminism Trick
+++ âCan a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.â âIsaiah 49:15-16âł “All the wrong turns in the past,… Read More Can A Mother Forget?
By Gary Potter. The subject here is a movie, one I think could be the most important made in my lifetime, at least in terms of cinemaâs future. Its importance doesnât make it a favorite nor even that I have especially enjoyed seeing it. Do we âenjoyâ seeing, say, Shakespeareâs Richard III? A particular production… Read More Terrance Malick’s “The Tree of Life”
Foundational Command: Honoring Parents These verses establish the commandment as a lifelong principle of faith and blessing. Exodus 20:12 > âHonour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.â Deuteronomy 5:16 > âHonour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy… Read More Honor Thy Father and Mother
You may be a traditional Catholic with ten beautiful home-schooled children who are each proficient in academics and in the arts. You may contribute substantially to both your church’s financial soundness and, to all appearances, to her reputation for spiritual integrity and growth . You may work hard, have a secure financial portfolio of stocks,… Read More The Successful, Proud, and Conflicted Traditionalist
April 28, 2025 by Mitch Teemley Weâre all a little bit racist. And sexist. And ageist. And a dozen other-things-ist. An ist is simply a bias or leaning, either away from or toward something. We lean toward what we know, and away from what we donât. And we all know our own race better than anyone elseâs, so weâre all a… Read More Becoming Part of a Bigger Family
Bishop Robert Barron on Healing Long-lasting Angers of Any Kind, Friendships, Family Members… And Trent Horn and Leila Miller on the Uncanny Similarities Between Abortion and Divorce. Adultery is bad. Divorce, which only rarely can be healed, is worse. Leila Miller: Yeah, absolutely. Itâs the death of a family isnât as grave as a murder… Read More Bishop Barron, Trent Horn On Healing Broken Relationships & Hearts
Perry is 33 years old, very intelligent, a writer, and she explains why she believes we as a culture have reverted to a hard paganism in America, for which we are paying a heavy price. She says it was the 1950’s understanding of male-female relationship and sexuality that got the truth of it all essentially… Read More Louise Perry Gets A Lot Right About the Sexual Revolution
The imaginative evolutionary narrative of history that takes us back to the moral jungle. Elon Musk’s version of MAGA. Also, Muskâs DOGE Holds First Hearing on Government Waste. Opens everyone’s books (good) except his own (not good). This weekend, a MAGA influencer, Ashley St. Clair, 26, alleged on X that: âFive months ago I welcomed… Read More Elon Musk’s 13 Babies. Monogamy in Crisis.
Raise the child tax credit and introduce a âbaby bonusâ for parents of newborns. Leah Libresco Sargeant and Daniel Darling | Jan 20 2025, National Review. Donald Trumpâs return to office will unfold in a post-Dobbs policy landscape. With a Republican trifecta, conservatives have a unique opportunity to define what pro-family and pro-life governance truly means. During the vice… Read More The Republican Trifecta Should Focus on Pro-Family Policy
The reason men have always, when necessary, fought and died to protect the women they love is not only romantic or sentimental. It is, rather, because, in her mystery, woman carries the future. She is that sacred gift who sustains a people and life itself. To encourage women to join the military and fight shows… Read More She Carries the Future
“Christian teachers wish to recall Christian people to domesticityâand I, for one, believe that people must be recalled to it. The first necessity is to stop telling lies about home life and to substitute realistic teaching. Perhaps the fundamental principles would be something like this. 1. Since the Fall no organization or way of life… Read More C.S. Lewis on ‘Brutal’ Truths About Family
The Curiosity of Family Ownership in the United States. By Phillip Campbell.The Distributist Review. In this essay we will consider an interesting social phenomenon in the United States whereby a very large number of small businesses across a variety of sectors are owned by first generation immigrants. If you do not know what I mean,… Read More The Blessings of Legal Immigration. Aspiring to Ownership.
Young supposedly privileged women are being taught in school to retool their own desires. They are told they need to be instructed by “experts” on how to be socialized, whereas most often young men learn to socialize themselves, on route to innovating and building the world. Retooled privileged Women seem to aspire to and do best… Read More The Corporatization of Women
The Battle for Britain and Beyond Jacob Rees-Mogg hosts John Anderson in his home for this Conversation. They discuss the roots and future of conservatism, British politics and economics, the role of the West in global affairs such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Chinese Communist Party, as well as diving into what motivates Jacob… Read More More Rees-Mogg. “The Family Precedes The State”.
Who didn’t see this coming? And it’s not lowering the legal age for sacramental marriage they’re planning. “Children over the age of 14 have the right to develop sexual relationships and choose to have a sexual relationshipâ with adults”. And proposed as a human “right,” parental authority here is radically undermined. “On 9 August, despite the pride… Read More The paedophile party advances at the UN, thanks to the EU and USA
Quoting Aquinas, Burke and John Fortescue, former member of Parliament (2010-2024) Jacob Rees-Mog recalls the timeless principles of traditional government versus the horrific footprints of modern internationalism. This speech was given at the London National Conservatism Conference on May 15, 2023. In it he lambasted so-called Conservatives and “Lefties” who advocate anti-family policies and reckless… Read More National vs. International Governance
Loneliness in the West. “Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work — but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone, which The Economist hailed as “a prodigious achievement.” Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans’ changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have… Read More Bowling Alone
UK plans to end gender ideology in schools, set age-based sex education rules Material suggesting that someoneâs gender is determined by their interests or clothing choices should not be used as it risks leading pupils who do not comply with sex stereotypes to question their gender when they might not have done so otherwise,â the proposed guidance… Read More UK plans to end gender ideology in schools, set age-based sex education rules
From gender delusions today to the family-damaging psychiatric-induced “Recovered Memory Syndrome” of yesterday, the inmates, everyone knows, are running the asylum. Lionel Shriver â author of the new novel, Mania â returns to The Brendan OâNeill Show. Lionel and Brendan discuss the collective derangement behind lockdown, climate alarmism, the trans ideology, and more. Journalist and author Lionel Shriver… Read More Lionel Shriver Speaks it Plain
See Dr. Mark Miravalle talk below. Pope Leo XIII wrote, “… as soon as the constitution and the spirit of the masonic sect were clearly discovered by manifest signs of its actions, by the investigation of its causes, by publication of its laws, and of its rites and commentaries, with the addition often of the… Read More St. Maximilian Kolbe, the Popes & the Masonic Sect
To Heck With the Irish.By Laura Wood —The Thinking Housewife. ON this Patrickâs Day, when the Irish wear green hats, drink cups of green beer and drown the memory of a holy saint in hedonism and nauseating sentimentality, itâs a good time to bear in mind that the Irish fully deserve the chastisement they are currently… Read More God Has Every Reason to Chastise the Irish Today.
“…she tells us that âof courseâ she could âprovide good arguments as to why looking at gender this way is wrong. Tempted as she might be … it turns out that sheâs not going to bother with that stuff much. Instead, she wants to give the people what nobody was really asking for: a deconstruction of the… Read More What is Judith Butler afraid of?
The referendums were touted as the next step for social change. Irish Votes on Women, Family Defeated in Surprise Blow to Government. Irish referendums held to change outdated language on women and the family in the constitution were defeated Saturday in a surprise setback for the government, which admitted that it had failed to convince… Read More Humiliating Defeat For Varadkar in Irish Family Referendum
LONDON (Reuters) – Sexually transmitted infections surged across Europe in 2022, with reported cases of gonorrhoea jumping by nearly a half, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said as it released its most recent data on Thursday. Syphilis cases rose by 34% from the previous year, to more than 35,000, chlamydia cases by… Read More “Sexually transmitted infections surge in Europe, latest data shows”
The âfamilyâ referendum proposes to amend article 41.1 of the Constitution to expand State recognition of the family as founded not only on marriage but also on âother durable relationshipsâ. “Ireland is holding a referendum [tomorrow ] March 8âInternational Women’s Dayâwhich, if the governing parties have their way, will mean the word âmotherâ is removed… Read More John Waters on Pernicious March 8 Anti-Family Irish Referendum
Traditional Irish people are convinced “that the care referendum would remove constitutional protection for mothers, many of whom would rather work in the home if they could afford to. Members of the Iona Institute have also raised concerns about what they perceive to be the uncertainty of the family referendum. Other conservative groups such as… Read More Ireland in Crisis: Upcoming Anti-Family Referendum March 8
Updated. Is the local government and local church involved in seeking to help? Why do some US cities struggle more with homelessness? A new book explores a key component of the issue: housing supply. [ Note / SH]: Illegal Substance Use Data also “show high rates of comorbid disorders such as anxiety disordersâwhich include generalized… Read More Homelessness, Housing Supply — and Co-morbid Disorders.
… but pay attention to what is said” — Thomas a’ Kempis, The Imitation of Christ. Begging With Confidence January 27, 2024 Around us, evil on evil is unfurled? âFear not,â said Jesus, âIâve overcome the worldâ (Jn. XVI, 33). On the last day of 2023 a Franciscan priest of the Capucin Friary of Morgon… Read More “Do not inquire, ‘Who said this?’
Getting older without children? A hard and fearful awakening is coming for you. Birth, death, immigration. Connor interviews Philip Pilkington & Dr Paul Morland, authors of ARC’s report, âMigration, Stagnation, or Procreation: Quantifying the Demographic Trilemmaâ, about dire destiny unless there is radical change now. What low birth rates portend. Dr. Ralph Martin on the… Read More The Consequences of Not Having Children
The need to be in a state of grace to receive Communion (CCC 1385) Leila Miller: … Christ said marriage is a one flesh union. So anytime youâre ripping that living flesh apart, something is dying. I mean, something pretty serious is being lost. Trent Horn: Yeah, because we think about divorce, itâs always so… Read More Trent Horn on the Evil of Divorce and the Way to Healing.
Though they take the credit, feminists, radical or otherwise, actually had little to do with the progress of women in the latter half of this century. The trends that would of themselves produce todayâs results were in place at least by the early 1960s. Once such things as the right to vote and the right… Read More Remaking Human Beings. Robert Bork.
Solène TadiĂŠ Vatican October 17, 2023 NCRegister. “Eight years after a footnote in one of Pope Francisâ signature documents appeared to open the door for divorced-and-remarried Catholics to receive Communion while remaining sexually active, a new round of public conflicts over its doctrinal legitimacy has exposed just how unsettled the issue remains at the highest levels… Read More Cardinal MĂźller: Latest Vatican Guidance on Divorce-Remarried Communion Represents a âRuptureâ With Church Teaching
Calls for “an ecology of the human being”. BBC: “Pope Benedict has called for “an ecology of the human being”. Pope Benedict XVI has suggested that the need to save mankind from a destructive blurring of gender roles is as important as saving the rainforests. He explained that defending God’s creation was not limited to… Read More Pope Benedict XVI Laments Blurring of Genders. 2008.
Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register writes, “Pope Francis appears to open the door to same-sex blessings in his response to dubium no. 2, saying that priests may use their discretion in giving such blessings, so long as they donât imply a same-sex union is equivalent to a heterosexual marriage: a) The Church has… Read More Francis Appears to Open Another Door
Era of the Traditional Family Over in America Recent Survey Suggests| National Catholic Register âThe family used to be the core unit of society. Increasingly, itâs now a lifestyle choice. And troublingly, the Americans who could benefit most from the stability of marriage and family life â working-class individuals and those without a college degree â… Read More Sign of the Times: The Traditional Family.
“… In March of this year, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, signed a $389-million supplemental budget bill that included a $1-million âpublic awareness campaign focused on the dangers of crisis-pregnancy centers and pregnancy resource centers.â Itâs unclear how the state is planning to use the funds, as CNA inquired with the governorâs office but… Read More Massachusetts Pregnancy Centers Form Alliance in Face of Campaign Against Them
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