Aug 28, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
A husband and father struggles to discover his place in the home. What exactly is his mission and how does he go about achieving it? A proper notion of peace, and of home, can offer clarification. Augustine’s definition of peace is my all-time favorite definition....
Jun 12, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
In an age that questions, doubts, and undermines first things, there is at least one silver lining. It demands that we look more intently and perhaps even discover some of these ‘first things’ for the first time. Fatherhood stands out among these. It might have seemed...
Sep 20, 2023 | Wednesday Quotes
There are important analogies between a father in a family and a ruler in a nation. This is perhaps especially clear in the consequences of their failure. Aquinas writes that “royal dignity is rendered hateful to many people on account of the wickedness of tyrants.”...
Sep 6, 2023 | Wednesday Quotes
Seeing our own weakness exemplified in someone else, including and perhaps especially in artistic representation, can be a great opportunity for us—if we recognize ourselves, and also see the weakness for what it is. Recently as we were reading Pride and Prejudice out...
Jun 14, 2023 | Articles, Institute of Family Studies, Wednesday Quotes
Sociologist Christopher Lasch once wrote, “Socialization makes the individual want to do what he has to do; the family is the agency to which society entrusts this complex and delicate task.” Complex and delicate indeed. But then again, it is no more complex than the...
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