“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” (Mt 5:27-28)
When I was a boy, my grandparents lived just down the street, and my brothers and I would visit them almost every day.…
Written By: Leila Marie Lawler
“How do I answer my children’s questions about what they hear on the news?” “How do I parent in a post-Obergefell world?” “My childhood was far from innocent. How do I raise my children?”
Parents want answers: I’m writing here to propose a few thoughts on human nature and to suggest some reading that puts parents in touch with the mind of the Church on the subject of sex education.…
JPII & TOB ON COSMO’S SNAPCHAT?!
You are never going to believe this. Guess what COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE posted on Snapchat! A THEOLOGY OF THE BODY REFERENCE.
Get this. Cosmo’s Snapchat Story featured an article titled, “I’m waiting until marriage – This is what my dating life is like”
Way to go, “Sara*, 22”!…
Steve, a scientist, attended a class I taught for parents of students in our Religious Education program. One day I opened up the class by asking if any of them had a question or comment they cared to share.
Steve soon let it be known that he was struggling with his faith and said, “As a scientist I collect data, then observe and measure it.” After he and I spent some time discussing what science can and cannot do, we agreed on a number of points.…
(Article originally posted at Dr. Greg’s patheos.com blog…)
Pope Francis has declared this to be a Year of Mercy but…so what? What does it mean to be merciful? And what difference does this year make to families?
The Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy illustrate that mercy meanstreating others in a way that allows them to see their worth in God’s eyes.…
Written by Monique Van Berkel
(This article originally posted at tobinstitute.org)
When I turned 50, I experienced what most people would call a “mid-life crisis.”
It seemed silly to me that a woman of my maturity and life experience would be seeking answers to fundamental questions of human existence. …
Written by Emily Wilson
(This article originally posted at emwilsonmusic.com)
I get a flash of a second with young women.
Thirty to forty-five minutes seems like a trivial moment in the grand scheme of their entire lives, especially when I know well what I am up against.…
Written by BILL DONAGHY
(This article originally posted at tobinstitute.org)
I was asked not long ago to share what I thought might be the three most powerful thoughts from Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. These three things continually fill me with wonder and awe, and are becoming the tripod on which I stand to view God, life, and everything in between:
1. …
Written by LONG NGUYEN
(This article originally posted at restoreculture.com)
A few nights ago, while standing in single digit temperatures, I was locked out of my home with no key and no one to let me in. So I chilled at the nearest McDonald’s to wait for the rest of my community to come home.…
Written by ASHLEY ACKERMAN
(Originally Posted on chastityproject.com)
Regarding the use of birth control, Fulton J. Sheen says this: “So-called birth control, which assists in neither birth nor control, is based on the philosophy that love is without obligations.”
Fulton is on to something—birth control, when used for contraceptive methods, doesn’t help us to control anything—rather, it allows us to give and take without consequences.…
