The New Catholic Manliness

Catholic Culture ^ | 8/2007 | Todd M. Aglialoro

[bdeaner]

[sageb1]

Interesting! Thanks for posting. I hope he’s right. We’re engaged a long battle and we need all the real men we can get.

[JRandomFreeper]

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[hinckley buzzard]

The concept of priests being "manly men" used to be implicitly understood in the Catholic Church. But as with the protestant cousins, the feminization of the church has done severe damage to the enterprise.

[Melian]

Oh, I hope this is true! Almost every priest my children were exposed to growing up was very short, very thin, and very weak looking. One of them did magic tricks on the altar during his homilies! He later left the priesthood.

The one breath of fresh air was one big, burly priest who talked about playing football as a teen and would sometimes play kickball with the kids at recess. He showed them you could love sports, being healthy and strong, and be a great Catholic in this day and age. We need real men of faith.

[Ransomed]

Awesome picture.

Freegards

[kosta50]

The Eastern Church, thank God, never encountered such problems. The reason: tradition. Once you let “popular” movements, whatever is in vogue, fads, etc. determine your standards, you will be skipping and jumping from one to another and neevr stay put. Let’s face it: Vatican II did away with tradition, or better yet with the Catholic culture. The Catholic Church re-invented itself and now it is trying to re-invent itself again. It may produce a new crop of “real” men for the season, but your nuns in pantsuits are not going away.

[bdeaner]

Fr. John Corapi

Now here is a priest a guy can relate to! For those of you who have never heard Father John Corapi preaching on EWTN, I will cut to the chase: Fr. Corapi is a kick-butt preacher who pulls no punches. If every diocese had one Fr. Corapi, the Catholic Church would...well, it would be a lot better off.

[Dajjal]

bumpus ad summum

[bdeaner]

Paradisus Dei's program, That Man is You! (discussed in the article).

Also, there are some excellent resources at the website for the Catholic Men's Fellowship of Pittsburgh.

[Salvation]

The New Catholic Manliness

Dads: Men for All Seasons
The Father of Fathers
Father’s Day 2009: “An End to Buffoonish Fathers”
[OPEN] The Government, Divorce, and the War on Fatherhood
Study Shows Christianity Makes Men Better Husbands and Fathers

Study Shows Christianity Makes Men Better Husbands and Fathers (Open)
Honoring Thy Fathers
Priests of the Domestic Church: A Father's Day Homily
The Blueprint for Heroic Family Life [Fathers' Day] [Ecumenical]
Honoring Thy Fathers

A Father's Tough Love
Children Who Have An Active Father Figure Have Fewer Psychological And Behavioral Problems
Where Have All the Christian Men Gone? My Conversation with John Eldredge
The Transforming Power of Prayer [Part 1] (Catholic Man)
The Transforming Power of Prayer, Part 2 (Catholic Man)

The 10 Paradoxes of Fatherhood, There is a certain immediacy about motherhood that cannot
The Story of Champions [Father's Day]
What Makes a Man a Hero? [Father's Day]
The New Catholic Manliness
Applying St. Benedict's Rule to Fatherhood and Family Life - Using 6th-Century Wisdom Today

[Iscool]

This is your first mistake

and its meek-and-mild founder whose humiliation

You portray the Son of God as some sort of girly/man...Look at all the pictures you guys have of Jesus...Jesus far more resembles Boy George or Michael Jackson than Hulk Hogan...

But women are attracted to that...I'd say men don't want anything to do with a sissyfied man, whether he's God or a priest/pastor...

Jesus was a man's man...Not afraid to take on a group of people physically, not very mild and meek in his speech; no blonde haired, blue eyed effemite Son for God...

[bdeaner]

I guess you would have the Church use these images instead?







No thanks!

We'll stick with this one, thank you very much:

[Iscool]

We'll stick with this one, thank you very much:

If it wasn't for Mel Gibson, you wouldn't have that one...

Like I said, if you want to portray Jesus as a wimpy feminine, you'll get mostly women and kids in your church...Guess you're happy with that...

[bdeaner]

A person who allows THIS to be done to them, in an act of pure obedience and self-sacrifice, for the salvation of mankind, is NO WIMP.



Too bad the Protestants cannot handle meditation upon the crucifix -- I guess they are too wimply to handle the harsh reality of what the Lord did for us when he suffered and died for our sins. Never forget.

[Running On Empty]

You presume and assume way too much beyond any practical knowledge you may have of Catholic men—and women.

I suggest that you stay with what you know as fact and start with your own community of believers first. You would be far more credible that way.

You have no practical, factual knowledge of what practicing Catholic men—and women—”want” and are “happy” with in their relationship with the Son of the Living God.

[Running On Empty]

ping

[US Navy Vet]

Profile of a REAL Man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_T._O%27Callahan

[Iscool]

A person who allows THIS to be done to them, in an act of pure obedience and self-sacrifice, for the salvation of mankind, is NO WIMP. Too bad the Protestants cannot handle meditation upon the crucifix -- I guess they are too wimply to handle the harsh reality of what the Lord did for us when he suffered and died for our sins. Never forget.

What in the world are you talking about??? Do you know???

This is your religion, not mine...I didn't write this stuff, your guys did...About you...

A certain feminine spin to Christianity is no modern novelty, of course. To the early pagans, our religion must have reeked of unmanly weakness, with its insistence on monogamy and celibacy, its idealized pacifism, its exaltation of mercy, its preference for the poor and helpless, and its meek-and-mild founder whose humiliation and death were somehow a blessing.

All of this is making today's Church, according to Leon Podles, author of The Church Impotent, "essentially a women's club with some male officers."

And the more "feminized" Catholicism thus became — the more its pews became recognized as the province of wives, children, and the effete

Like the article says, this is YOUR church, not mine...I was offering a suggestion how to attract men...There must be some medicine out there that will thicken your skin...

[Iscool]

You have +\=-yteqwno practical, factual knowledge of what practicing Catholic men—and women—”want” and are “happy” with in their relationship with the Son of the Living God.

Sure I do...I know a number of ex-Catholic men as well as current Catholic men who do not attend any of your churches...