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The Freedom of the Family
By Fr. Brian Thomas Becket Mullady, O.P. There are a number of philosophical theories about the origin of human society. There are two extreme positions. One is the Social Contract theory dear to...
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Authentic Healthcare for the Elderly
By Fr. Basil Cole, O.P. Recently I saw an ad for the “10 commandments of caring” on the internet. It was produced by the HCR Manor Care Company, which has rest homes around the country. While it is not...
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Unitive and Procreative: What is Marriage? Part II
By Donald Prudlo, Ph.D. Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles to explore the American Bishops’ Pastoral Letter, “Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan.” Read Part I here, Part...
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When “Rights” Are Wrong: In Opposition to Same-Sex Adoption
By Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. The cover of Time recently featured the headline “The Childfree Life.” China has for some time enforced the “one child policy.” With this policy, children have no siblings...
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Divorce: Challenges to Marriage
By Donald Prudlo, Ph.D. Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles to explore the American Bishops’ Pastoral Letter, “Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan.” Read Part I here, Part...
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Abortion, Parenthood, and Social Policy
By Joe Kral Blessed Pope John Paul II wrote, “A family policy must be the basis and driving force of all social policies” (see Evangelium vitae, no. 90). Why? The family is the basic building block...
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New York Clerk Refuses Same-Sex “Marriage” License
By John Horvat II I was surprised by the following article: Jefferson Center — Joan MacIntryre and Jane Andrews have dreamed of a wedding with all the trappings. Joan has pulled out all the stops to...
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Impending Canonization Invites JPII Generation to Strengthen Faith
By Caitlin Bootsma Who could forget the thrill of being one of thousands, even millions, of young Catholics awaiting the arrival of Pope John Paul II to one of the many World Youth Days he attended? It...
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Marriage in the Church – What is Marriage?: Part V
By Donald Prudlo, Ph.D. Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a series of articles to explore the American Bishops’ Pastoral Letter, “Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan.” Read Part I here, Part...
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The Gift of Life in Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”
By Mitchell Kalpakgian “But she very soon found herself thinking once more of the world above her: she could not forget the handsome prince and her own sorrow at not having, like him, an immortal...
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“Brothers” and the Mystery of Love
By Mitchell Kalpakgian How lovely the elder brother’s Life all laced in the other’s, Love-laced!—what once I well Witnessed, so fortune fell. When Shrovetide, two years gone, Our boys’ plays brought on...
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Pope Francis on the Family and Human Life
By Fr. C. J. McCloskey What a first year this has been for Pope Francis and for the Church! From Pius XII to the current pontiff, the Church and the world have been exceptionally blessed with a string...
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The Parish Fish Fry: an Old Tool for the New Evangelization
By Brittany Higdon “Lenten Fish Fries are as much a part of our culture as losing sports teams,” said the CEO of the Cleveland-area Cleats Restaurants Corporation, Tim Higdon. On non-Lenten Fridays,...
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The Harvest of the Home
By Mitchell Kalpakgian Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Little Men depict the mystery of the home as a small place deserving to be called a garden or orchard wherein seeds and young plants multiply...
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Why Lisa Fullam is Wrong About the Synod on the Family’s Working Document
By Mark S. Latkovic, S.T.D. In a recent America symposium, moral theologian Lisa Fullam of the Jesuit School of Theology (Santa Clara) reflects on the working document “Instrumentum Laboris” for the...
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Cultural Revolution in Orwell’s 1984 and America’s 2014
By Mitchell Kalpakgian, Ph.D. In Orwell’s novel Winston Smith, the protagonist, finds himself living in an inhuman world he cannot recognize as normal or natural. Aware of life in London before the...
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Worlds Apart
By Don DeMarco, Ph. D. I am a father and a philosopher. This is not necessarily an unusual combination, but it does give me a range of interests that spans two rather distinctive worlds. I am...
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The Freedom of the Home
By Mitchell Kalpakgian, Ph.D. In defending the home and family as “something as wild and elemental as a cabbage”, Chesterton acknowledges the sovereign freedoms that govern life in a family: “the home...
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A New Word for the Family
By Don DeMarco, Ph. D. Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, may have coined a new word when he described contemporary American society as “defamilied”. While...
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