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But How Can You Respect a Man When…?

In a previous article, I made the point that women need to respect men for who they are and not wait until they “earn it”.  A question posed to me in reply is a good one and worthy of consideration.  How do you respect a man who, by his own actions, or serious omissions, has lost your respect, or worse, earned your disrespect?  

Marriage Is A School of Sacrificial Love

Marriage Is A School of Sacrificial Love

One of the many blessings that flow from the Catholic Church’s unswerving stance against divorce – or better, for the permanence of marriage – is that the Catholic theology of marriage has a depth and richness rarely found in Protestant thought, and wholly foreign to secular thought.

Men, Identity, and Friendships

Men, Identity, and Friendships

Someone commented to me about a sentence from my previous As the Deer Longs… article: “For many men, our last experience of really close male friends was in high school or college, although we may have many acquaintances.”