It is one thing to talk about the Resurrection. It is quite another to see the Easter fire struck in the night, the candle lit, the light of Christ filling the tomblike darkness of the waiting church. As a Catholic, I live and relive that liturgy every year; every year it astonishes me as no amount . . . . Continue Reading »
Tomie dePaola’s children’s books show a sympathy not only for the child, but for the childlike adult, whose eyes are open to surprise and miracle. Continue Reading »
The buildings at Green Cove consist of a main lodge, an infirmary, and a variety of cabins arranged in “lines” according to the ages of the girls who inhabit them. Most of the camp’s structures were built in the 1940s and have changed little since then. The cabins have concrete floors, . . . . Continue Reading »
Children are gifts. In them, we respond to Moses’s urgent imperative: Choose life! (Deut. 30:19) Men and women have always brought children into the world. To be a parent is the most natural of things. It is fundamental to what it means to be human. Yet the birth of a child is also an . . . . Continue Reading »
On this episode, Adeline Allen and Mark Bauerlein discuss how gestational surrogacy is dehumanizing. Continue Reading »
Fertility rates are lower in countries where people believe that “work provides meaning in life.” Continue Reading »
Contra French, drag queen story hours are not all that small. Continue Reading »
Regretting Motherhood: A Study by orna donath north atlantic, 272 pages, $15.95 In March, a self-help author tweeted that whereas he once intended to have many children, now, after putting in a few years on his first, he had decided that one was enough, and more than enough, and if he had it . . . . Continue Reading »
Not too many years ago, I knew a little boy who was prone to temper tantrums that included yelling, kicking, and hitting. He wasn’t entirely to blame for this, having had a rough start in life. Nevertheless, that sort of behavior couldn’t just be excused, and, of course, if uncorrected it would . . . . Continue Reading »
As with Charlie Gard before him, Alfie Evans’s death is being pursued by the very people whose vocation it is to help and protect him. Continue Reading »
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