What the Catholic Church Can Learn from General Washington

The following post is the conclusion to my short series on Catholic Men, manliness, and the loss of strong masculinity in Catholic life today. Having covered the importance of fathers and fatherhood, having suggested some websites that support men in living their Faith, and having shared some thoughts from an interview with a real-life Catholic…

The Fatherly “No”

Only a man can be a father. Many people will argue that men and women are basically the same, and can and should do the same things. Essentially they think that members of the sexes can be treated as interchangeable cogs in the ever-spinning wheel of civilization. But only a man can father—only a man…