Angelus News | July 29, 2022 | Vol. 7 No. 15

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Letters to the Editor
Realizing the wreckage of porn
As someone who works to engage men and specifically fathers in the
prevention of human trafficking, I really appreciated the insights in Elise
Ureneck’s July 1 cover article “How to Save Men.”
I have been doing trainings on the link between pornography and trafficking
for years now. The article references the 2,000 hours a year 7 million men spend
on their screens, and too much of that is spent on porn, which is dismembering
families and castrating faith at an alarming rate.
Men are losing their identity as God’s children, their moral authority and their
credibility in ways that are leaving children vulnerable to social media predators
and traffickers.
— Patrick Erlandson, Rancho Palos Verdes
Of wars and men
I found the July 1 issue cover article to have interesting and valid ideas, but a
couple of wrong messages too.
I work at a large public university, and contrary to the article do not see “typical
college males” to be “paralyzed by insecurity and guilt”
Also, when did “harming the earth, and starting wars” become virtues to be
recommended in a Catholic diocesan paper? Every pope I have known has been a
peacemaker trying to end wars, not start them.
Claiming that to have happiness and energy men need to start wars and harm
the earth, is completely against centuries of Catholic teaching (and basic logic).
— Keith Jayawickrama
Response from the editor:
Some readers have expressed their disagreement with a quote from the late
American poet Robert Bly that appeared in the July 1 cover story describing the
“soft male”: men who are “not interested in harming the earth, or starting wars, or
working for corporations” but seem devoid of happiness and energy.
To be clear, the article was in no way criticizing a perceived lack of interest “in
harming the earth, or starting wars.” Rather, by quoting Bly, the paragraph in question
contrasted this positive aspect with the perceived negative quality of seeming
“devoid of happiness and energy.”
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“Why don’t we just teach
each other how to garden?”
~ Michael Guidice, a member of the Catholic Land
Movement, on how a growing number of Catholics
are opting out of modern living to return to the
land, in a July 12 Tablet magazine story.
“The costs of pregnancy,
childbirth, and postpartum
care really do spell the
difference between life
and death for scores of
American mothers and
infants.”
~ Elizabeth Bruenig in a July 9 article in the Atlantic,
“Make birth free,” on the lack of maternal health
policies that support mother and child.
“When love for Jesus is
strong in us … we can
see persecution not as
something that is the end
of our life, but as a way to
say ‘Yes’ to Jesus.”
~ Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Archbishop
Pierbattista Pizzaballa, reflecting on the
beatitudes during a vocational encounter of the
Neocatechumenal Way with 8,000 youth from the
U.S. on the Mount of Beatitudes in Galilee.
“[LAUSD’s gender-ideology
programming] will keep
[children] trapped in a
morass of confusion,
fatalism, and resentment —
while the bureaucrats keep
collecting their paychecks.”
~ Christopher F. Rufo, on the Los Angeles Unified
School District’s decision to introduce “transaffirming”
gender ideology in all classrooms, in a July
20 article “Sexual liberation in public schools.”
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