Anonymous asks: “My adolescent age niece recently told me she started reading Soman Chainani’s books, School for the Good and Evil. Do you know anything about this series of books?”
Yearly Archives: 2019
First educators
June 13
“Wives, mothers of families, the first educators of the human race in the intimacy of the family circle, pass on to your sons and your daughters the traditions of your fathers at the same time that you prepare them for an unsearchable future. Always remember that by her children a mother belongs to that future which perhaps she will not see…”
-TO WOMEN, VATICAN COUNCIL II CLOSING SPEECHES AND MESSAGES, Pope Paul VI
Today’s Reflection:
How are you passing on the “traditions of your fathers” and preparing your family for an “unsearchable future?”
Last Abortion Clinic in MO Gets Two More Weeks
A Circuit Court judge in St. Louis has given Planned Parenthood permission to continue performing abortions in the last clinic in the state in spite of the fact that safety concerns are preventing the clinic’s license from being renewed.
Young Women of Grace in Chicago Teach Others: “Friends Forgive!”
Lizzie (L) and Betsey (R) work together to hone their message that “friends forgive!”
What better way to complete the Young Women of Grace: Embrace Your Femininity Study than by celebrating the gift of spiritual motherhood? The 13 young women from Christ the King parish in Chicago who took the course this year decided there was no better way to spend their last meeting together than by exercising this all-important feminine gift.
Reconcile men with life
June 12
“You women have always had as your lot the protection of the home, the love of beginnings and an understanding of cradles. You are present in the mystery of a life beginning. You offer consolation in the departure of death. Our technology runs the risk of becoming inhuman. Reconcile men with life and above all, we beseech you, watch carefully over the future of our race. Hold back the hand of man who, in a moment of folly, might attempt to destroy human civilization.”
-TO WOMEN, VATICAN COUNCIL II CLOSING SPEECHES AND MESSAGES, Pope Paul VI
Today’s Reflection:
What does it mean to “reconcile men with life?” How are you doing in this regard?
What’s Behind the iRest Meditation Craze?
GL writes: “I have been hearing a lot about a meditation practice known as iRest that’s supposed to help you get good night’s sleep. Is it okay for Catholics to participate in this?”
Vatican Issues Document on Gender Ideology in Education
The Congregation for Catholic Education has issued a new document that finds gender ideology to be opposed to faith and reason and offers guidance to Catholic parents and educators about how to address the many challenges this new movement is creating in our schools.
Liberated woman
June 11
“And now it is to you that we address ourselves, women of all states—girls, wives, mothers and widows, to you also, consecrated virgins and women living alone—you constitute half of the immense human family. As you know, the Church is proud to have glorified and liberated woman, and in the course of the centuries, in diversity of characters, to have brought into relief her basic equality with man. But the hour is coming, in fact has come, when the vocation of woman is being achieved in its fullness, the hour in which woman acquires in the world an influence, an effect and a power never hitherto achieved. That is why, at this moment when the human race is under-going so deep a transformation, women impregnated with the spirit of the Gospel can do so much to aid mankind in not falling.”
-TO WOMEN, VATICAN COUNCIL II CLOSING SPEECHES AND MESSAGES, Pope Paul VI
Today’s Reflection:
What does this excerpt from the Vatican II letter “To Women” tell you about the Catholic Church’s teaching on the equality of woman?
NAET: Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Technique
JS asks: “Can you tell me if NAET (Nambudripads Allergy Elimination Techniques) is related to the New Age? It involves energy work.”
Authorities Fail to Curb Ever-Worsening STD Epidemic
The promotion of promiscuity through comprehensive sex education and condom-distribution campaigns is continuing to fuel an STD epidemic that is now seeing more than one million new cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and diseases (STDs) every year.
