Subversion of reverence for the family is among the greatest evils of...
- because family is the primary metaphor for divine love. To misunderstand the family leads modern Man to misunderstand God – to find Him incomprehensible. Thus, Bruce Charlton. This dovetails with his...
View ArticleWoman is the Glory of Man
The man is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. Thus St. Paul. He says it in the middle of some deeply reactionary stuff about women keeping their head covered in church...
View ArticleDysfunction à l’Anglais
With echoes of Thomas Hobbes. Meals here were solitary, poor, nasty, British, and short. Thus Theodore Dalrymple. No doubt Dr. Dalrymple will be roundly condemned for lacking empathy for the poor,...
View ArticleBirkenhead Drill, Mother’s Edition
Woman lies down in path of moving car to save her twins.
View ArticleCaptain Telemachus USA
In the closing days of the Second World War: Weeks before, [Captain Roger Hilsman] had asked his former commanding officer, Colonel Ray Peers, to allow him to go on any rescue mission into...
View ArticleGeteilte Freude ist doppelte Freude
Geteilter Schmerz halber Schmerz. Which is why we are under solemn covenant to mourn with those that mourn. Reading Dan’s blog this week has been awfully hard on the photoreceptors, which don’t respond...
View ArticleThe Feast Day of St. Demography
The Feast Day of St. Demography is today. Also every other day.
View Article“Large families, large houses, traditional role models, and single incomes”
Those words would be as good an answer as I could give to the question originally addressed to Conan the Barbarian: “What is best in life?” But they’re actually taken from this passage: “As the economy...
View ArticleWho’s Your Ingroup, Anyway?
Meg Stout gives a plausible explanation of when dissent warrants expulsion from the Church, and when it doesn’t. It’s true that the women’s organization “Give Us The Priesthood Or We’re Telling The NY...
View ArticleWhiplash
A few nights ago, in the sleepy haze that follows nightly prayer but precedes full unconsciousness, Mrs. MC and I discussed how we discipline our kids, what we might change, etc. Nowadays, no...
View ArticleCommunities
Real communities involve extended networks of trust and goodwill. Fake communities have regulations, fees, subsidies, and checklists. – Jonah Goldberg
View ArticleThe Tree of Our Life: Juxtapositions IX
From Alma’s sermon on faith: 41 But if ye will nourish the word, yea, nourish the tree as it beginneth to grow, by your faith with great diligence, and with patience, looking forward to the fruit...
View ArticleMea culpa
The Junior Ganymede welcomes this guest post by Kent G. Budge. My reaction to the SCOTUS decision on gay marriage has been decidedly mixed. By that I mean that I’ve experienced a broad range of...
View ArticleLike father, like son.
I didn’t become the kind of man my father was in his workplace or in the community. I became the kind of man he was at home. I’m not talking about smoking, but this illustrates.
View ArticleMaking babies is not only fun
It’s also a good idea. What is remarkable is that Caplan is an atheist.
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