HGM213 - July 2025

Holy Authority and Perfect Union

I always considered my parents to be saints. We had deep respect and admiration for them. I sometimes wondered if there was anyone like...

Adornment and Primordial Light

A wise teaching of Dr. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira points out the dual purpose of clothing: to cover the body and reveal the soul....

Did You Know…

…why Catholics pray kneeling? Considered barbarian behaviour and despised by Greco-Latin culture, genuflection had little value in antiquity. The aversion is not hard to understand:...

Holy Abandonment – And What About Tomorrow?

The mere mention of the query that heads this article disturbs us. It is unsettling because of our uncertainty regarding the answer; it makes...

Motherly Corrections

Naughtiness and wrongdoings come up in the ordinary life of any child. Sometimes a window is broken, a cake is ruined, milk is spilled…...

St. Joachim and St. Anne, Parents of Our Lady – By Their Fruit You Shall Know Them

The Old Testament can well be considered a sublime preparation for the Incarnation of the Word. When we place Our Lord Jesus Christ at...

Children: An Option or a Mission?

Catechism of the Catholic Church § 1652 By its very nature the institution of marriage and married love is ordered to the procreation and education...

Martyrdom of the brothers Justus and Pastor – Sanctity Knows No Age

Another day was drawing to a close in one of the countless Roman cities of the early fourth century. While the increasingly decadent pagans...

Duchess Sophie Chotek von Hohenberg – Marital Fidelity Taken to the Extreme

June 28, 1900. With a determined mind, Archduke Franz Ferdinand – heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – accepted the destiny...

The Perfect Social Fabric

The cellula mater of the organic social fabric is the family. It has within it the fullness of organicity, and because of warmth and...

Honouring Parents: a Sacred Duty

For many people pervaded by a relativistic spirit, the existence of the Decalogue – that is, the set of moral rules that should govern...

The Education of Children – The Great Challenge for Parents

Children are born without an instruction manual. They come changing all the rules, abolishing schedules, and doing away with selfishness. In the end, only...