Tag: Men
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
The love of a father
In Raising Fathers, I was privileged to share the story of my paternal grandfather Lian Kooi and of my father Keong Heng Ang, both...
Paul Catalanotto: An age in need of, well, chivalry
It’s hard to say the word “chivalry” without conjuring up images of knights in shining armour. It’s an idea that many would say seems...
Open invitation: St Joseph and the Masculine Genius.
Catholic men, as well as those interested in the Catholic faith, are invited to gather for food, fellowship and faith once again on Saturday...
Take up your vocation, Bishop urges men
“To be honest, the faith lives and experiences of lay men in the Church are not often a focus."
Dr John Whitehall: Time of the ‘Inclusion officers’
In the dark of night, forces promoting the rainbow ideology of gender fluidity have launched an historic offensive against the determinism of the chromosome,...
A place for young men to hear the still, small voice...
A hundred and eighty three years to the day after the first Catholic priest was ordained in Australia, a house of vocational discernment named...
A real issue for our Church: promoting the vocation of Marriage
Someone buy Anna Hitchings a drink. She showed no small degree of courage penning last week’s reflection (Catholic Weekly, 5 May, pages 14-15) on...
For want of a lot of good men
We are living in a unique time in history. Never has politics been so polarised, never has mainstream society come so near to amorality...
Rediscovering the masculine genius
The Church desperately needs to rediscover the gifts of the “masculine genius” in order to be a “healthy and growing” Church, according to Fr Paul Chandler.
