Author: Tradition Magazine
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Two are Better than One
About the Author The world-weary author of the book of Ecclesiastes takes time in book 4, verses 9-12 to speak to the importance of friend and, perhaps, a spouse who is a support and a helper. Two are Better than One 9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their…
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Aristotle on the Good Wife
About the Author Aristotle (384 – 322 BC) was a Macedonian who went to Athens to study with the great philosopher Plato. Aristotle studied in Plato’s school, the Academy, until the death of his teacher. Aristotle might have been a natural choice to lead the Academy, but he seems to have been passed over, perhaps…
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Cardinal Jacques de Vitry on Superstitious Wedding Customs
About the Author Jacques de Vitry (1180 – 1240) was a French clergyman. Rising through the hierarchy of the Church, he was involved with the Albigensian crusade, which resulted in stamping out the heresy of the Albigensians in France. The Albigensians, or Cathars, adopted a view similar to that of the Manichees of Saint Augustine’s…
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Re-Creation In The Byzantine Rite Of Crowning: A Reflection On The ‘Baptism’ Of Marriage
About the Author Quinton Peralta is a Byzantine Catholic residing in Toronto, Canada. He is a current doctoral student in the Political Science Department of the University of Toronto. His present work focuses largely on the virtue of moderation and its connection to personal and political identity formation, though his interests span widely in the…
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The Usurer’s Marriage
About the Author Stephen of Bourbon (1180 – 1261) was a Dominican friar living and working in modern France. The Dominicans were known as the order of preachers, and Stephen moved around modern France preaching to the people. He also worked as an inquisitor. As he went, he gathered stories, weaving them into his sermons.…
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What is a Man? What is a Woman?
About the Author Dr. Leon Podles is the husband of Mary Elizabeth Smith and by her is the father of six and the grandfather of eight. He has written two books on masculinity, The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity and Losing the Good Portion: Why Men are Alienated from Christianity. He is a board member of www.bishop-accountability.org and wrote Sacrilege:…
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Saint Thomas Aquinas mulls over Marriage
About the Author Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 – 1274), a.k.a. The Angelic Doctor, is perhaps the greatest theological mind in the history of the Church. We can get an inkling of his mind from a chance comment he made: in all his reading, Aquinas had never experienced what it was like not to…
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G. K. Chesterton on the Heroism of Vows
About the Author The journalist and novelist Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) was one of England’s best known and most well-spoken Catholics in his time. Catholics and many others find much of value in his book Orthodoxy, but Chesterton also had a vast output of articles and essays in which he discusses topics important and…
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The Cross of Marriage: The Centrality of the Cross in Paul’s Household Code
About the Author Aaron P. Debusschere is the husband of one and father of three. He holds degrees in philosophy, theology, and education, and is currently completing a dissertation on the Augustinian roots of Vatican II’s ecclesiology. He blogs with his wife at The Romantic Catholic. The Cross of Marriage: The Centrality of the Cross in…
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Saint John Chrysostom on a Happy Marriage
About the Author Saint John Chrysostom (c. 347 – 407) grew up in Roman Antioch. He trained to be a lawyer, training with a great pagan rhetorician, but as he grew John became drawn to God. He became a hermit, committing the entire Bible to memory. When he left the wilderness he ascended the ranks…