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May 21, 2012

Moms Should Not Strip

by Jennifer Kaczor

Good news! While my daughter takes her ballet class, I can now take a “strip-hop” class. I read the announcement at my daughter’s dance studio: Unleash your inner seductress. Come join the fun! Really? Gyrating and peeling off my clothes…

May 11, 2012

In Praise of Noisy Villages: Homeschooling and the Common Good

by William Fahey

A simple premise: nothing short of the complete family being engaged in learning will secure a proper education. Behind this premise is a simple principle: Education is communal. It is communal because that which deals with the formation and perfection…

May 11, 2012

Community: Why We Homeschool

by David Walbert

As a homeschooling parent I’m continually frustrated by the difficulty of talking about why we do what we do. Homeschooling is nearly always portrayed as a flight from something: bad influences, secular curriculum, bullying, drugs, violence, or simply a broken…

May 10, 2012

Berry, Boomers, Stickers, and American Catholics

by Christopher Shannon

I am a long-time reader and admirer of the work of Wendell Berry. On April 23, I was privileged to be among those in attendance at the Kennedy Center to hear his 2012 Jefferson Lecture. With Berry nearing the end…

May 10, 2012

Marriage or Savagery: Lithuania Debates the Family

by Carolyn Moynihan

Some of the most interesting debates on family policies are taking place in the European countries of the former Soviet bloc. In 2008, Lithuania passed legislation to define “family” as the married union of a man and a woman together…

May 8, 2012

Meekness: The Third Lively Virtue

by Anthony Esolen

We all know the account in Luke about the boy Jesus, who when he was twelve years old accompanied his parents to Jerusalem for the Passover, as was their custom. But this time he stayed behind in the city after…

May 4, 2012

A Requiem for Manners

by Stephen M. Klugewicz

On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee met General Ulysses S. Grant at the McLean House in Appomattox, Virginia, for the purpose of surrendering the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee had asked for the meeting and had prepared by…

April 23, 2012

Solicitude: The Second Lively Virtue

by Anthony Esolen

About the distance of an earthly mile we’d gone already, and in little time, because our wills were eager – when we heard Spirits coming our way, flying above, heard them but never saw them, graciously welcoming to the wedding…

April 20, 2012

How Not to Prevent AIDS

by Dale O'Leary

In July the U.S.will host the International AIDS Conference and there is promising news. The experts are now convinced that treatment is prevention. If those who are infected are identified quickly, treated so that their viral load is lowered, not…

April 20, 2012

The Obesity of Eros

by Pete Jermann

Among the furrow browed and the gravely concerned, particularly those not tipping the scales beyond the approved standard, obesity is the current social chancre crying out for their enlightened solutions. But for the enlightened, though less than corpulent, to isolate…

April 17, 2012

Humility: The First of the Lively Virtues

by Anthony Esolen

When Thomas Aquinas asked how it was that Satan believed, in his pride, that he could be like God, he denied that even the devil could be so blind as actually to believe that he could be God. For Satan understood by natural knowledge that that was impossible.

April 12, 2012

Charity in the Face of Opposition

by Jennifer Feeney

“But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” —Matthew 5:44 That’s a tough order, to love your enemy. But it’s direct from Christ and a non-negotiable for a Christian. I understand the meaning…

April 9, 2012

Honors and American Girl Dolls

by Jennifer Kaczor

I could have kicked myself. Recently, I ran into a friend at the grocery store, and I abruptly asked her the most impertinent question, “Did Laura get into high school with honors?” I asked–and immediately regretted it. First of all,…

April 5, 2012

Mementos and Momento Mori

by Matthew Chominski

It wasn’t but a few weeks ago that I had to help my dad move a couple of heavier and more awkward items out of my grandparents’ now empty house. With my grandmother unable to live on her own and…

April 3, 2012

Why Homosexuals Think they Are Hated

by Dale O'Leary

Pope Benedict XVI and others have recently drawn attention to the fact that simply putting forward the Church’s unchanging teachings on marriage and sexual morality puts a person in the position of being accused of “hate.” In particular, GLBT (gay…

March 29, 2012

Progressive Inhumanity, Part Three: Hatred of the Past

by Anthony Esolen

I have long thought that the term “progressive” was a dodge, because no one could tell me exactly where we were supposed to be headed and why. It seemed to me that the term was teleological but without a telos,…

March 22, 2012

A Womb with Three Views

by Donald DeMarco

It did not happen. But it could have happened. It is a matter of historical record that Plato was born in Ancient Greece, Aquinas in the Middle Ages, and Jean-Paul Sartre in the Twentieth Century. Yet it would not have…

March 21, 2012

How to Develop a Prayer Life that Transforms

by Brennan Pursell

On Ash Wednesday a wise priest said, “For Heaven’s sake, don’t give up anything for Lent, if you’re just thinking of chocolate, coffee, alcohol, or facebook. Turn your heart to God! Free yourself of the aggravation, anger, jealousy, and hatred…

March 21, 2012

Culture Wars? What Culture Wars?

by Matthew Anderson

Whenever I see a headline using the term “culture war,” I briefly get my hopes up for what the news article will contain. I think to myself, “Perhaps those on the left have finally become concerned about the works of…

March 16, 2012

The Mad March to Sanity

by Matthew Chominski

By the time this little piece of writing runs, this year’s mad march towards the crowning of an NCAA college basketball champion will have begun it’s climactic careen. It is likely that at one point or another over a hundred…

March 14, 2012

The Meaning of the Sexual Powers

by J. Budziszewski

There you will show me That which my soul desired; And there You will give at once, O You, my life! That which You gave me the other day. —John of the Cross, Spiritual Canticle Midnight. Shelly is getting herself…

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