Angelus News | July 29, 2022 | Vol. 7 No. 15
On the cover: A pilgrim walks on his knees outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 2019. For our special pilgrimage issue, on Page 10 Mike Aquilina writes on how the urge to leave everything and travel afar is as old as Christianity itself. On Page 14, Elise Ureneck recounts the unexpected graces of her last pilgrimage with her late mother, and on Page 16, California historian Stephen Binz points the way to the pilgrim path in our own backyard. On Page 20, Pasadena native Jenny Gorman Patton tells of finding the healing she needed, rather than the one she wanted, at the Marian shrine of Lourdes, France.
On the cover: A pilgrim walks on his knees outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 2019. For our special pilgrimage issue, on Page 10 Mike Aquilina writes on how the urge to leave everything and travel afar is as old as Christianity itself. On Page 14, Elise Ureneck recounts the unexpected graces of her last pilgrimage with her late mother, and on Page 16, California historian Stephen Binz points the way to the pilgrim path in our own backyard. On Page 20, Pasadena native Jenny Gorman Patton tells of finding the healing she needed, rather than the one she wanted, at the Marian shrine of Lourdes, France.
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Letters to the Editor<br />
Realizing the wreckage of porn<br />
As someone who works to engage men and specifically fathers in the<br />
prevention of human trafficking, I really appreciated the insights in Elise<br />
Ureneck’s <strong>July</strong> 1 cover article “How to Save Men.”<br />
I have been doing trainings on the link between pornography and trafficking<br />
for years now. The article references the 2,000 hours a year 7 million men spend<br />
on their screens, and too much of that is spent on porn, which is dismembering<br />
families and castrating faith at an alarming rate.<br />
Men are losing their identity as God’s children, their moral authority and their<br />
credibility in ways that are leaving children vulnerable to social media predators<br />
and traffickers.<br />
— Patrick Erlandson, Rancho Palos Verdes<br />
Of wars and men<br />
I found the <strong>July</strong> 1 issue cover article to have interesting and valid ideas, but a<br />
couple of wrong messages too.<br />
I work at a large public university, and contrary to the article do not see “typical<br />
college males” to be “paralyzed by insecurity and guilt”<br />
Also, when did “harming the earth, and starting wars” become virtues to be<br />
recommended in a Catholic diocesan paper? Every pope I have known has been a<br />
peacemaker trying to end wars, not start them.<br />
Claiming that to have happiness and energy men need to start wars and harm<br />
the earth, is completely against centuries of Catholic teaching (and basic logic).<br />
— Keith Jayawickrama<br />
Response from the editor:<br />
Some readers have expressed their disagreement with a quote from the late<br />
American poet Robert Bly that appeared in the <strong>July</strong> 1 cover story describing the<br />
“soft male”: men who are “not interested in harming the earth, or starting wars, or<br />
working for corporations” but seem devoid of happiness and energy.<br />
To be clear, the article was in no way criticizing a perceived lack of interest “in<br />
harming the earth, or starting wars.” Rather, by quoting Bly, the paragraph in question<br />
contrasted this positive aspect with the perceived negative quality of seeming<br />
“devoid of happiness and energy.”<br />
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The faith of Uganda comes to the Valley<br />
Representatives from the government and the Archdiocese<br />
of Gulu in Uganda came to Panorama City last<br />
month to celebrate the dedication of a new shrine to<br />
Uganda’s Catholic martyrs at St. Genevieve Church. |<br />
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“Why don’t we just teach<br />
each other how to garden?”<br />
~ Michael Guidice, a member of the Catholic Land<br />
Movement, on how a growing number of Catholics<br />
are opting out of modern living to return to the<br />
land, in a <strong>July</strong> 12 Tablet magazine story.<br />
“The costs of pregnancy,<br />
childbirth, and postpartum<br />
care really do spell the<br />
difference between life<br />
and death for scores of<br />
American mothers and<br />
infants.”<br />
~ Elizabeth Bruenig in a <strong>July</strong> 9 article in the Atlantic,<br />
“Make birth free,” on the lack of maternal health<br />
policies that support mother and child.<br />
“When love for Jesus is<br />
strong in us … we can<br />
see persecution not as<br />
something that is the end<br />
of our life, but as a way to<br />
say ‘Yes’ to Jesus.”<br />
~ Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Archbishop<br />
Pierbattista Pizzaballa, reflecting on the<br />
beatitudes during a vocational encounter of the<br />
Neocatechumenal Way with 8,000 youth from the<br />
U.S. on the Mount of Beatitudes in Galilee.<br />
“[LAUSD’s gender-ideology<br />
programming] will keep<br />
[children] trapped in a<br />
morass of confusion,<br />
fatalism, and resentment —<br />
while the bureaucrats keep<br />
collecting their paychecks.”<br />
~ Christopher F. Rufo, on the Los Angeles Unified<br />
School District’s decision to introduce “transaffirming”<br />
gender ideology in all classrooms, in a <strong>July</strong><br />
20 article “Sexual liberation in public schools.”<br />
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