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”
“The Patriarchs” 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
Since American Leftist and globalist ideologues were in the process of cancelling mothers, other women, and girls even up to official White House documents before 2024 (and doubtless will try again and again); and since indeed they will not allow the traditional scriptural definition of women and girls, we no longer celebrate the American and… Read More Regarding the American ‘Mother’s’ Day
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
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 you’re ripping that living flesh apart, something is dying. I mean, something pretty serious is being lost. Trent Horn: Yeah, because we think about divorce, it’s always so… Read More Trent Horn on the Evil of Divorce and the Way to Healing.
Well, it certainly is interested, as witness the following. “A RAPIDLY INCREASING number of American families are opting out of sending their children to school, choosing instead to educate them at home. Homeschooled kids now account for roughly 3 percent to 4 percent of school-age children in the United States, a number equivalent to those attending charter… Read More The State in Your Home. What Does Harvard Think of Homeschoolers?
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