A great many woes have been laid at the doorstep of feminism, but one of the saddest must be the attitude it fosters—mostly among conservative men—: I mean the attitude that women really are inferior, if not in intellect, then at least in temper. Chesterton was notoriously opposed to the involvement of women in politics; he [...]
Tuesday last week was the feast of St. Isaac Jogues and companions, the first of among the North American martyrs. Those companions—John de Brébeuf, Jean de Lalande, René Goupil, Anthony Daniel, Gabriel Lalemant, Charles Garnier, Noel Chabanel—and Fr. Jogues were martyred by the Iroquois Indians in the earlier part of the seventeenth century in the north [...]
Every now and then I hear some point that I find mildly interesting, and I file it away in the back of my mind. But when the point comes up twice in one week—then I sit up straight and maybe, if I’ve got the time, write a blog post about it. In this case the point [...]
During a recent Sunday my family’s pastor retold the story of St. Rita of Cascia: how she prayed that her sons should die rather than commit sin, and how God in fact granted her prayer rather than let the boys avenge the murder of their father. How many of us have faith like that? How many [...]
Hello, my name is Sophia, and I am a Facebook user. My story began about a year an a half ago. College graduation was looming, and I was still young and innocent. I had gone to school far from home, and I was facing the prospect of the passage of months—years—decades—without seeing my friends again. I [...]
Saturday was one of those days. The details would make a long story; suffice it to say that I left the house around a quarter of eight in the morning, and got back tolerably exhausted at a quarter of six. I was contemplating something drastic. I had been planning on going to a contra dance (a [...]
Last week a state delegate and an attorney general got together and decided that it is again time for the Commonwealth of Virginia to regulate abortions. This may sound like small potatoes—of course there is still a federal mandate permitting abortions, and there will be plenty of abortions performed in Virginia even if the Attorney General’s [...]
