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F aith does not take us out of the world but inserts us more profoundly in it. Not like those perfect and immaculate ones that think they know it all, but as persons that have known the love that God has for us. From the address In fact, to look at our families with the delicacy with which God looks at them helps us to put our consciences in His same direction. The accent put on mercy puts us before the reality in a realistic way, not, however, with just any realism but with God’s realism. Our analyses are important and necessary and they will help us to have a healthy realism. But nothing is comparable to the evangelical realism, which does not halt at the description of situations, of problems, — even less of sin — but always goes beyond and succeeds, seeing behind every face, every story, every situation an opportunity, a possibility. Evangelical realisms is committed to the other, to others and does not make ideals and of “having to be” an obstacle to encounter others in the...

Humanum : Issues in Family, Culture & Science Spring 2013 - A Mother's Work Contents EDITORIAL Stratford Caldecott: Editorial: A Mother's Work FEATURE ARTICLES Margaret Harper McCarthy: A Mother's Work Is Never Done! Mary Eberstadt: The Real Trouble with Day Care WITNESS Nicky Rowdon: Witness: Motherhood – All Is Grace BOOK REVIEWS Micheala Van Versendaal: Modern Woman Crittenden, Danielle, What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman (Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1999, 191 pages). Carla Galdo: The Mother’s Mission Clarkson, Sally, The Mission of Motherhood: Touching Your Child’s Heart for Eternity (Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2004, 224 pages). Stephen McGinley: Most Important Job in the World Crittenden, Ann, The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued (Picador, 2010, 322 pages). Catherine Sienkiewicz: Ru...

God’s glory is revealed, instead, on the cross: it is love, which shines there and spreads. It is a paradoxical glory: without noise, without profit, and without applause. But only this glory renders the Gospel fecund. From an address Unity. Jesus prays to the Father so that His own “may become perfectly one” (John 17:23); He wants them to “be one” (v. 22), as the Father and He . It is His last, most heartbroken request before His Passion: that there be communion in the Church. [...]  Every charism is a grace of God to enhance communion. However, a charism can deteriorate when it is closed or is boastful, when it wishes to be distinguished from others. Therefore, it is necessary to protect it. Protect your charism! How? By following the masterful way: humble and obedient unity....It is always necessary to watch over the charism, purifying eventual human excesses through the search for unity with all and obedience to the Church. [...]  This is the fecundity of the Chu...

From the homily Jesus wished to introduce his companions into the mystery of Life, into the mystery of His life.  He showed them by eating, sleeping, curing, preaching and praying, what it means to be Son of God.  He invited them to share his life, his interiority, and in his presence among them he allowed them to touch, in his flesh, the life of the Father.  He helped them to experience, in his gaze, in his going out in power, the newness of saying “Our Father”.  In Jesus this expression “Our Father” has no trace of routine or mere repetition. On the contrary, it contains a sense of life, of experience, of authenticity.  With these two words, “Our Father”, he knew how to live praying and to pray living.  Jesus invites us to do the same.  Our first call is to experience this merciful love of the Father in our lives, in our experiences.     [full text] I prefer a family with tired faces from generous giving, to a family with faces ful...

Humanum : Issues in Family, Culture & Science 2015 - Issue Four Google That! Education and Technology

Divine Likeness: Toward A Trinitarian Anthropology of the Family by Marc Ouellet     gratis Eerdsman God Sent His Son: A Contemporary Christology by Christoph Schonborn   The Nuptial Mystery by Angelo Scola

From the address to diplomatic corps [E]very authentic practice of religion cannot fail to promote peace.  Our recent celebration of Christmas reminds us of this: we contemplated the birth of a vulnerable child who is “named Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace” (cf. Is 9:5).  The mystery of the Incarnation shows us the real face of God, for whom power does not mean force or destruction but love, and for whom justice is not vengeance but mercy.  It is in light of this that I wished to proclaim the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. [...]  Sadly, we recognize the numerous challenges presently facing families, “threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life”. [...]  An individualistic spirit is fertile soil for the growth of that kind of indifference towards our neighbours which leads to viewing them in p...

  From an address Grandparents are so important in the family. Grandparents have memory; they have wisdom. Do not leave grandparents to one side! They are very important. [...] Take care of peace in the family: we all know there is quarrelling in the family. When there is no quarrelling in a marriage, it seems abnormal. What is important is that the day not end without making peace. [...] One must learn this wisdom of making peace. You have made war during the day? Is your war still hot? Don’t let it become cold, because the “cold war” of the day after is more dangerous than the “hot war.” Understood? Make peace in the evening, always! The Jubilee is to be lived also in the domestic Church, not only in great events! What’s more, the Lord loves one who practices mercy in ordinary circumstances. I wish you this: that you experience the joy of mercy, beginning in your family. [full text]

On Marriage and Family Life by John Chrysostom   Perseverance in Trials by Carlo Maria Martini   Sex and the Sanctity of Human Life by William May   Show Me the Way by Henri Nouwen   Resurrection and Moral Order by Oliver O'Donovan Thirty-Nine Articles by Oliver O'Donovan    An Augustine Reader   Harvard Classics (Confessions and Imitation of Christ)   Christopher Dawson's Saints

The Journals of Alexander Schmemann The Nuptial Mystery by Angelo Scola Happiness and Benevolence by Robert Spaemann gratis Jeremiah Alberg Bernanos: An Ecclesial Existence by Hans Urs von Balthasar gratis W.T. Dickens The Christian and Anxiety by Hans Urs von Balthasar

The Mystery of the Supernatural by Henri de Lubac The Splendor of the Church by Henri de Lubac gratis Paul McPartlan A Short History of Ethics by Alasdair MacIntyre   The Epiphany of Love by Livio Melina gratis Eerdmans Divine Likeness: Toward A Trinitarian Anthropology of the Family by Marc Ouellet     gratis Eerdsman The Catholicity of Reason by David C. Schindler   gratis D. C. Schindler Heart of the World, Center of the Church by David L. Schindler   gratis HUP Ordering Love: Liberal Societies and the Memory of God by David L. Schindler gratis Eerdmans