The Meeting Point is a new online affective and sexual formation program for students, grades 9-12. Billed as an evolving project, the program is the brain-child of a group of married couples in Spain. To […]
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch!” — “Jabberwocky,” by Lewis Carroll Pope Francis, right at the start of Amoris […]
Black Bench is a polis within a metropolis. Its population—nine individuals robed in black—is constant. When one of its inhabitants retires or dies, an outsider—vetted, appointed, and affirmed—fills the vacancy. Its raison d’être is to […]
In his preface to A Man for All Seasons, playwright Robert Bolt describes protagonist Thomas More as a man with an adamantine sense of his own self. He knew where he began and left off… […]
1. Is What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense a must read? Yes. This is the primer for common sense arguments supporting traditional marriage. 2. For whom is it written? It is written by […]
“What Price Glory?” is the title of a 1924 play about life, death, and heroism in the trenches of World War I. One of the co-authors, Laurence Stallings, was a Marine sergeant in the famous […]
In early June 1978, I picked up Dr. Jérôme Lejeune at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport; he was to address an international conference on human life issues at St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota. I knew Dr. […]
Recently, Archbishop Cordileone of San Francisco, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, gave an address at the March for Marriage in Washington, D.C. He focused on the common […]
H. L. Mencken—satirist, progressive, pseudo-misogynist, provocateur—wrote a book in 1918 called In Defense of Women. Like an optical illusion, the title, depending on one’s focal point, can mean defending women or defending oneself from women. […]
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