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Islam in the Crucible of History: Behind the Sacred Narrative, a Human Construction

Joseph Nicolosi Jr: Therapeutic Freedom Forbidden to Desire Dissenters?

There are subjects where our era, which believes itself passionately free, suddenly becomes very authoritarian again. It proclaims that everyone must be able to « be themselves », choose their life, their identity, their body, their narrative, their truth. But let an adult say: « I do not want to be defined by my sexual attractions; I want to work on them, understand them, order them, perhaps see them diminish », and contemporary great liberalism immediately transforms into a prison guard.

Feast of the Most Holy Sacrament (Corpus Christi)

A great thank you to the Una Voce association for authorizing us to publish excerpts from the excellent commentaries of the five Gregorian pieces for the upcoming Sunday or feast. You will find all the texts on the website and we can only encourage you to subscribe to the weekly newsletter by checking the appropriate box on the homepage. Le Salon Beige

Child Sexual Abuse: The Family Is Not Guilty, It Is Betrayed

Deputy Rossignol is right to reject « paedophilia » for violence against children. It is more accurate to speak of « child sexual abuse crimes ». Yet her reasoning stops short: she suspects the family, the father, authority, falling into anti-family ideology. However, family violence is not the truth of the family, but its absolute corruption. Just as a dictator does not prove that all government is bad, a predatory father does not prove that all paternal authority is illegitimate. Authority must protect, not crush. The true answer? Defend the family by being relentless toward those who desecrate it.

When the Republic Seeks Delinquents in Confessionals

One had to think of it. In a France where physical violence, sexual violence, trafficking, refusals to comply, fraud and daily offences increasingly saturate the ordinary experience of the French, part of the national representation has found one of the urgent matters of the moment: to breach the secrecy of confession.

A guide to ecology for the family: is this really the urgent matter for families today?

Critical analysis of the Vatican document on integral ecology in family life and its pastoral relevance