People used to sing together–on pilgrimage, on Crusade, on the way to battle. It kept up the marchers’ morale for the cause, shared beauty of melody and lyric, handed down and passed on noble ideas. The songs were really love songs: proclaiming love for Christ, and His mother, the saints, the Church, and the good…
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…
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…
Continuing this short series on Catholic Manhood, I would like to link to some of the best blogs and sites dedicated to this topic that I have seen. Go to these great sites to hear from Catholic men–priests and laymen–on topics such as Catholic life, virtue, fatherhood, friendship, theology…and so much more. Posts and articles at these…
Continuing this series on masculinity in the Catholic Church, I want to bring you another voice today. My perspective on this topic is limited, and external, due to being a woman. But being a married woman, fortunately I have easy access to the thoughts and opinions of a Catholic man! Recently I “interviewed” him for…
So, there’s a “man-crisis,” as they say, in the Catholic Church. Catholic men (particularly young Catholic men) are not attending Mass, pursuing a regular spiritual life, or taking much involvement in their children’s religious education. The men are not randomly MIA; there are some key reasons for the man-crisis. One of the reasons stems from a species…
While I was on the internet this afternoon, looking for good things to pin on this blog’s Catholic boards, I found something interesting. I discovered dozens of sites with hundreds of posts dedicated to affirming, aiding, and assisting Catholic men. Catholic men—are there any left? In our times, there has been a massive erosion of…
My husband was not raised Catholic. He was one of the “nones” as they call them, having been raised with no faith in his family whatsoever. But from a youthful fascination with Catholicism, partly due to the Catholics in his extended family, he was receptive to investigating my Faith when we started dating. He…
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