Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Mirages Instead of Marriages

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Following up on the previous post, on Ex Machina (2014), one remarkable aspect of the film is the ease with which Caleb accepts the possibi...
Friday, September 16, 2022

The Surprise of Human Adulthood

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In recent years I've from time to time heard the lament that the adults aren't in charge anymore, as they were for example in the mi...
Saturday, June 12, 2021

Heavenly families?

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The epistle from St. Paul for yesterday's solemnity contains the following clauses that I've often heard: For this reason I bow...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Modesty Is Simply Thoughtfulness

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Huffington Post is promoting a story about Mark Frauenfelder's daughter being told by a TSA agent to cover up. According to Frauenfeld...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Feminism and the Experimental Exemplar

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In response to my last post an anonymous commentator took me to task for my statements about women. With admirable concision, she says, ...
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Sunday, May 09, 2010

Technology vs. Motherhood

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Today is not only Mothers Day, it is ironically also the 50th anniversary of the FDA's approval of the Birth Control Pill, that technolo...
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Friday, January 29, 2010

Abortion and the War against Nature

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I went down to DC for the March for Life last week. Trip preparations before and catching up with work afterward have taken up much of my t...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Procreational Ordering without Conception

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As I understand it, most marital acts don't result in conception. Lately I've been wondering how the fact that procreation is the na...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Love: Marital vs. Romantic

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Some may think it takes chutzpah for a bachelor to write on marriage, But just as a medical doctor doesn't need to have cancer to diagno...
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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Men and Women in Science

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A recent report published by the National Academies of Science calls into question the convential (PC) wisdom that women are more poorly rep...
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Friday, May 29, 2009

The Continuing West Controversy

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Christopher West has published a clarification of his ABC interview. Not exactly satisfying, but good enough. Needless to say, West does no...
Sunday, May 10, 2009

Naivete or Stupidity? West on Hefner

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Christopher West is a popular exponent of Pope John Paul II's "Theology of the Body," which teaches a positive view to spousa...
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Saturday, May 02, 2009

News Flash: Women Are Different than Men

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A couple recent examples of our willful blindness of the unique nature of women. There's a provocative article in The Atlantic on ...
Monday, February 02, 2009

On Marriage: a Bad Good-Article and Two Better Ones

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I've been terribly busy with work, but I'd like to call to you attention an interesting triptych of articles on marriage in Touchsto...
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Monday, July 07, 2008

Graying and Dying

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Just a short note to point out a couple of interesting articles on the graying and dying of our population. First, Boston Globe op-ed by Je...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

The Natural "Rules"

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The March Atlantic Monthly has a significant piece on bringing reality back to romance. The author, Lori Gottlieb, is a single woman whose...
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