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But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: a spirit of wisdom and of understanding, a spirit of counsel and of strength, a spirit of knowledge and of fear of the Lord, and his delight shall be the fear of the Lord" (Is 11:1-3)
Subsidiarity: A Primer
In light of President Obama's confidence in government's ability and duty to solve humanity's problems, and in light of Pope Benedict's latest encyclical Caritas en Veritatis, it is more important than ever for American Catholics to become familiar with the principle of subsidiarity.
InsideCatholic.com - New study reveals innate gender differences between boys and girls.
A new study by researchers at Texas A&M University suggests that little boys are hardwired to prefer toy trucks, while girls have innate preferences for dolls -- and all of this apart from social conditioning.
Disney world ‘too heterosexual’ for children’s good
Two sociologists have come up with a novel reason for fretting about kids’ exposure to media: the risk of seeing heterosexuality as normal and desirable.
Op-Ed Columnist - The Way We Love Now - NYTimes.com
In America, passion and its discontents may not be exactly what they seem.
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Add Sticky NoteThis tameness has beneficial social consequences: When it comes to divorce rates and out-of-wedlock births, Americans with graduate degrees are still living in the 1950s. It’s the rest of the country that marries impulsively, divorces frequently, and bears a rising percentage of its children outside marriage. Indeed, if you’re looking for modern-day Percy Shelleys or Mary Wollstonecrafts (to pluck a pair of Nehring’s romantic risk-takers), you’re more likely to find them in Middle America than among the environmental lawyers and documentary filmmakers who populate Tsing Loh’s depressing social world.
- This is interesting. I heard at a national conference on the family in June, 2009, that there is a marriage divide between the "Marriage Haves" and the "Marriage Have-Nots." The "Marriage Haves" are college educated. They are more likely to get married and stay married. The "Marriage Have-Nots" are those without a college education. The reasons given by the presenter at the conferece were mostly socio-economic. I wonder if there is something more happening here - intellectual training leading to certain virtues despite the modernist philosophy that prevails? - on 2009-07-06
MercatorNet | Family Edge
One of the most influential ideas of the twentieth century was summed
up in the title of Norman Vincent Peale’s book, The Power of Positive
Thinking, published in 1952.
Vital Signs - Patterns - Drinking Age Affects Bingeing, to a Point - NYTimes.com
A new study finds that as the drinking age has gone up, binge drinking has gone down — except among college students.
When it comes to Richard Dawkins' atheist camp, I'm a non-believer - Telegraph
An atheist worries about what will happen to children at atheist summer camps.
Mexico City Policy Fallout: National Catholic Register
Speaking to Vatican Radio, our Latin America correspondent Alejandro Bermúdez recently outlined some of the evil consequences of President Barack Obama’s cancellation of the Mexico City Policy.
Bishop leads the battle against same-sex unions - Washington Times
A number of black church leaders resent the comparison of gay marriage to the civil rights movement.
'Lines that divide'
A new documentary shows why we need to "stem" the tide of embryo-destructive stem-cell research.
Steady As She Goes
The relation of language to thought has long been a philosophical puzzle, one to which no universally accepted answer has yet been given.
Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship
"Harder to kill than a vampire." That is what the sociologist Joel Best calls a bad statistic. But, as I have discovered over the years, among false statistics the hardest of all to slay are those promoted by feminist professors.
The Early Church: How Christians elevated culture
How Christians elevated culture
What did the Christians cherish from the pagan traditions, and what did they change?
Preface: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization
For those of us who love the West, we are in a daunting battle. The other side has the mainstream media, the Ivy League, the political classes, and a lot more money. Thankfully, on our side, we've got thousands of years of history and some pretty big guns -- with names like Aristotle, Augustine, Burke, and Eliot.
Noble and Ignoble Feelings (This Rock: April 2007)
A sidebar from the article "Noble and Ignoble Feelings" that explains the history of the thought that becoming more human means abolishing all emotion.
A Philosopher with Heart (This Rock: April 2007)
Catholic philosopher Dietric von Hildebrand argues that passions are not at odds with human nature, but an integral part of human nature that need to be directed toward the Good, the True and the Beautiful. He argues against the common perspective that becoming more human only means overcoming emotions with the will. This article from This Rock Magazine is a synopsis of Hildebrand's larger work annotated by John Henry Crosby of the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project.
Affirmation and Affirmation Therapy
Conrad Baars and Anna Terruwe have based their theory of psychological disorder on the Catholic understanding of human nature and human emotion. They have experienced great success in therapy where "traditional" treatments have failed.
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