Addicted to Dungeons & Dragons
KO writes: “My son-in-law has been playing Dungeons and Dragons with a group of friends for many years. Is this a harmless pastime? Should I be concerned?”
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Moment to Moment
June 16
"We should not wish for anything but what comes to us from moment to moment, exercising ourselves nonetheless for good."
-St. Catherine of Genoa
Deeper Needs and Greater Destinies
June 15
"The great women always recall us to the deeper needs and the greater destinies; and so they try to save the world from the shallow, the slick, the facile, and the cruel, and to show us that the world of men is not meant to be either a battlefield or a laboratory, but a family."
--Gerald Vann, O. P.
A Father Like No Other
“No one is father as God is Father” (CCC No. 239)
Prayer
June 14
"Give up prayer, and you no longer see the inwardness of things; you see only the surface. And with nothing to go by but effects, statistics, and evidence supplied by natural perceptions, you arrive at the wrong conclusions."
-Dom Hubert Van Zeller
Three Dads, Three Lessons
by Ellen MonganAs Father’s Day approaches, my mind races to memories of what I learned from my three best dads. Life is full of learning experiences. I try to learn something from everyone I encounter. I have learned the most from the three most important fathers in my life, my dad, my father-in-law and of course my husband. I hope this article spurs you on to remember what your dad has taught you.
A Tale of Two Worldviews: Catholic and Secular Bioethics
The Trump administration recently proposed new rules for family planning clinics which will prohibit all abortion-related practices – including referrals for abortion – from taking place in clinics that receive federal grants. Bioethicists on both sides of the issue are avidly debating these new rules and revealing just how stark a difference there is between the secular and Catholic view of reproductive health care.
Living Chastely in Christ Jesus
June 13
Feast of St. Anthony of Padua
"Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent."
-St. Anthony of Padua
Perfect – and Powerful – Summer Devotions for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
By Susan TassoneAh, summertime, and the living is easy. Vacation. A few days at the beach. An afternoon picnic in the park. And …
China Fumbling to Fix It's Family Planning Mess
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSReliable sources are predicting that the People’s Republic of China may be ending it’s notorious family planning program altogether as early as the end of this year due to the demographic nightmare it created after four decades of severely restricting births.
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