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Serving Catholics for 25 Years
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If there is a theme in our reprints this week, it's that life is hard, and living well is hard, but great graces and inspirational courage abound.
Brendan Kelly was a young boy with Downs Syndrome who loved and cared for other sick children while he himself battled leukemia.
Matthew McDonald interviews several couples who have benefited from The Alexander House, "a nonprofit organization in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1999 that uses Catholic principles to help couples repair troubled marriages." ("God, you know how I hate this man," said one wife.)
And John Cuddeback discusses the effort required to teach our children how to engage in "real" play.
God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez, Editor
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"Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not." - Flannery O'Connor
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| The Mother Who Leads Us to Life, Not Death |
| Fr. Paul Scalia, That Nothing May Be Lost |
| Any serious musician would treasure an ear with perfect pitch—that is, the ability to discern perfectly the accuracy of a musical note. |
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| Brendan Had Three Babies |
| Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine |
| A boy with Down Syndrome and leukemia who died at the age of 16 has left an amazing legacy. |
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| You Do Belong Here |
| Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing |
| We're quite prone, in these days of political hysteria and fragility, to blow up discrete incidents—sensationally circulated on social media—into cosmic proportions. |
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| The Pelvic Divide: Anatomy, ideology, and pseudo-science |
| William Kilpatrick, Catholic World Report |
| You can argue about whether God designed the pelvis this way or whether nature did, but it is an anatomical fact that children should know. It's a fact that gives children an objective basis on which to discern who's telling the truth about gender and who is not. |
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| A Happy Birthday to Our Lady |
| The Catholic Thing |
| We know, for a fact, that every devout Jewish woman dreamed of being the mother of the Messiah, or at least of giving birth to a daughter who would be. |
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| Let Me Go Back and Try Again |
| Plough |
| One life on this earth is not enough to satisfy the hunger that we have to serve Christ in all the ways that are open to us. |
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| The magnanimous faith of J.R.R. Tolkien |
| CWR |
| The author of The Lord of the Rings wasn't bigoted; he was big-hearted. Our culture could learn a lesson from him about how to hold firm convictions while having broad sympathies. |
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| Hope and Opportunity for Formerly Incarcerated Women |
| Acton Institute |
| The Lovelady Center in Alabama is proving a model for care when it comes to women released from prison. Faith-based and holistic, it is showing results and providing hope in ways government-run agencies simply cannot. |
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| How to Be at Peace With Your Decision-Making |
| CWIB |
| "We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding his greatness, we realize our own littleness; his purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon his humility we find how very far we are from being humble" (St. Teresa of Ávila). |
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| VIDEO: Forgive Like Christ |
| Pints With Aquinas |
| Fr. Pine talks about the theology of forgiveness then gives some practical steps we can take to be better at forgiving. |
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| The Endow Podcast |
| Buzzsprout |
| The Endow Podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius. |
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