A Children's Book for Our Time

by Mark Bauerlein

 Matthew Mehan joins the podcast to discuss his recent children's book, The Handsome Little Cygnet. Continue Reading »

3 Jan 2022 0

​Love Among the Artifacts

by Matthew Hennessey

This business of signing the inside covers of books is both charming and macabre. People die; books live forever. Scrawling on a flyleaf is a down payment on immortality. Think of me, it says. Memento mori. Continue Reading »

17 Feb 2017 0

Why Man and Woman Are Not Equal

by Glenn T. Stanton

Man and woman are not equal. He owes what he is to her. That is hardly her only power, but it is among her most formidable. Continue Reading »

26 Aug 2016 0

Five Ways the Church Can Help Married and Engaged Couples

by Ashley McGuire

Sitting at a high-top table in Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, just a few blocks away from Pope Francis and the World Meeting of Families, a young priest friend leaned in and asked me what I wish had been different about my marriage prep. “Having been through it recently, what would you . . . . Continue Reading »

21 Oct 2015 0

What a Divorced and Remarried Catholic Wants from the Synod

by Luma Simms

Regina Einig interviewed Luma Simms, author of My Plea, for the German newspaper Die Tagespost, in which a version of this interview first appeared.As a divorced and remarried Catholic mother who wishes to bring up her children in the faith, do you think that the Church could make things easier . . . . Continue Reading »

2 Oct 2015 0

Time to Take Marriage Seriously?

by Carl R. Trueman

Churches need to show, not simply claim, that they take marriage and fidelity seriously. Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2015 0

As Marriage Multiplies in Meaning

by Kate Pitrone

I bumped into this piece, ” Polygamists Celebrate Supreme Court’s Marriage Rulings ” and thought, well, of course they do.  Anything goes now.  Who is to judge?  Marriage means what we want it to mean.  What we could discuss, since the morality argument is . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Jun 2013 0

About Margaret Thatcher after Watching Ginger and Rosa

by Kate Pitrone

For years when people have asked me which woman I honor, I am likely to say Margaret Thatcher.  You can imagine the varied responses I get, depending of the politics of the person who asks the question.   There are not many people one does not know whose deaths inspire grief; for . . . . Continue Reading »

14 Apr 2013 0

The Bible is a Huge Hit, I Hear

by Kate Pitrone

This is just my two cents on the pop culture scene. I am guilty of not watching television and being routinely clueless about the pop culture scene. Here, I lurk in wonder at who the hell has time to watch TV programs regularly.  What I will do is catch up with some show friends rave . . . . Continue Reading »

22 Mar 2013 0

Senator Portman and Relativism

by Kate Pitrone

Ohio Senator Portman, a supporter of DOMA, has come out in favor of gay marriage. This reversal of principle about marriage is apparently rooted in the relative in that his change of mind comes about because of a relative: his son. He also suggests that Republicans cannot hope to attract the votes . . . . Continue Reading »

15 Mar 2013 0