Our ancestors understood that men and women have distinct qualities so they tried to define roles and conventions that were best suited to the strengths of each.
So, it might be true to say that traditional gender roles are societal conventions, but what’s being left out of that is that they are conventions that are an attempt, admittedly imperfect, to reflect objective, biological, and maybe even, spiritual, realities.
When most people hear the word authoritarianism, it naturally conjures a range of negative associations. We tend to think of dictators, wars, and genocides. And it’s probably a good thing that it does produce those kinds of associations because despotism isn’t something that anyone wants, but it seems to me that the unprecedented fragile peace and prosperity that so many generations have known now is never far from that edge.
The second Vatican council was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church hosted over several years and presided over by 2 popes (John XIII & Paul VI).
Up until this point in the Church’s history, councils were called in order to resolve some controversy as in someone’s been teaching something that is creating confusion and debate and so the Church needs to gather to prayerfully consider it and offer a clarification.
Source: Brian Holdsworth via YouTube Music written and generously provided by Paul Jernberg. Find out more about his work as a composer here: https://pauljernberg.com I once observed an online exchange between a couple people, one of whom is what you might call a Catholic celebrity which is just to say […]
Source: Brian Holdsworth via YouTube Music written and generously provided by Paul Jernberg. Find out more about his work as a composer here: https://pauljernberg.com I would never say that I am a Capitalist because I think it’s degrading to place oneself in a posture of subservience to an ideology like […]
Source: Brian Holdsworth via YouTube Music written and generously provided by Paul Jernberg. Find out more about his work as a composer here: https://pauljernberg.com If you’re Catholic then it isn’t news to you that many in roles of authority within the Church have fully embraced modern and post modern art […]
Source: Brian Holdsworth on YouTube Music composed and generously provided by Paul Jernberg. Find out more about his work as a composer here: https://pauljernberg.com Anxiety and depression can be debilitating. They can make you turtle up and opt out from the business of living life and despair is the crippling […]
Source: Brian Holdsworth on YouTube Music written and generously provided by Paul Jernberg. Find out more about his work as a composer here: https://pauljernberg.com Let me start off by admitting that the title of this video is a bit hyperbolic. Of course there are writers out there who are capable […]
Source: Brian Holdsworth on YouTube Music written and generously provided by Paul Jernberg. Find out more about his work as a composer here: https://pauljernberg.com When I was trying to find my way as a new follower of Jesus but not committed to a particular Church, one of the passages of […]
Source: Brian Holdsworth on YouTube Music written and generously provided by Paul Jernberg. Find out more about his work as a composer here: https://pauljernberg.com Galileo, as we all know, was an astronomer who put forward an idea known as heliocentrism which is the idea that the Earth rotates around the […]
Source: Brian Holdsworth on YouTube Just this past week, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, better known as the Jesuits, Fr. Arturo Sosa made headlines when he publicly claimed that the Devil or Satan is just a symbol and not a personal reality. And this isn’t a remarkable […]
Source: Brian Holdsworh on YouTube Well, a new Pew Research Center Survey was published this week that says that only 1 third of Catholics believe the Church’s teaching about the real presence of Jesus in Holy Communion. Just for some context, the Church teaches, and has always taught, that when […]