The Narthex
Fatherhood, Adoption, & Inheritance
Scripture invokes images and experiences increasingly rare and marginalized in our culture
By John M. Grondelski | August 11th 2025 12:27 PM"Almighty ever-living God, whom, taught by the Holy Spirit, we dare to call our Father, bring, we pray, to perfection in our hearts the spirit of adoption as your sons and daughters, that we may merit to enter into the inheritance which you have promised." The Collect for the 19th…
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Parishes & Commandments of the Church... Adapting Just War Principles... Name-calling... more
By John M. Grondelski | July 17th 2025 5:55 PMParishes & Commandments of the Church Archbishop Edward Weisenberger of Detroit has supposedly told priests to remind Catholics attending Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) at one of the four non-parish venues in the Archdiocese where the TLM will at least occasionally be available that those attendees are nevertheless members of some…
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The oxymoronic logic of murderous motherhood has taken cultural root
By John M. Grondelski | May 12th 2025 12:00 PMMother’s Day should be one of those celebrations that elicits only happy feelings: you know, “motherhood, baseball, and apple pie.” But the reality is we need to think a little more deeply about the state of motherhood in the developed world. I’ve regularly written about the parcelization of motherhood. Modern…
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