Tag: Masculinity
The Catholic response to “patriarchy” and “toxic masculinity”
UNDA theologian Dr Peter Holmes’ quest for answers about manhood and countless conversations with men led to his first book, Redeeming Masculinity: A Catholic Theology of Masculinity. The text is a readable journey through the church’s teaching on the value and importance of being a man.
Juggling careers and big families, can Catholic dads have it all?
This Father’s Day, we asked senior Catholics in Sydney with nine, eleven or even thirteen kids how they make time for the things that really matter.
Atheism is the greatest destroyer of authentic masculinity
There is no worse message for a man to receive than the lie that his life is meaningless and his personhood is of no account. Yet that is all atheism has to offer a man. Christ’s offer is not just true, but is also good. Only God tells us that it is always good for men to be men, writes Fr Joshua Miechels
Christian cop leads Miranda men’s revival
Inspired by the responsibility to grow in faith, one Sydney police officer is leading the charge with a new men’s ministry group in Miranda to learn what it means to be masculine in the eyes of the Catholic Church.
Let’s see more of Sydney’s healthy expressions of men’s faith
Recent weeks have seen two large groups of men across our city expressing their faith in very different ways. Monica Doumit asks whether there is more that unites them than divides them.
Canceling women (or when men make better women than women)
Recently, USA Today named US Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, a biological man, “Woman of the Year.”
For years, governments and NGOs in the...
Dads: provide for your kids by being present!
Greg Ellis, a Hollywood veteran best known for his turn in the Pirates of the Carribean series, likens the family court to a cartel: ...
Philippa Martyr: The maleness of Jesus Christ
I’ve been reading a rather grim book lately called Clerical Sexual Misconduct, which was reviewed in The Catholic Weekly earlier this year.
But in the...
Robert Haddad: A time when we must learn how to be...
Men's ministry provides spiritual and practical support
Men’s ministry in recent years has been enjoying a higher profile and importance in Sydney and across Australia.
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