“Marriage: Passion, Friendship & Vocation”, by Gabriel M. Walz (2015). School of Divinity Master’s Theses and Projects. 11. Available in pdf format at University of St. Thomas, and at CORE.
See these online texts and ebooks (I) by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI and (II) about him and his thought, previously indexed on the Project.
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Religion as a Virtue: Thomas Aquinas on Worship through Justice, Law, and Charity, by Prof. Robert Jared Staudt, Ph.D. Dissertation, Doctorate in Theology, Ave Maria University, 2008. Available in pdf format on this page, listed on the Reading Toolbox & Student Resources page, of Dr. Scott Hahn’s website.
The Christian Mother: The Education of Her Children and Her Prayer; With an Account of the Archconfraternity of Christian Mothers, by the Rev. W. Cramer, translated by a member of the Society of Jesus, with an Introduction by the Most Rev. James Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore (New York, Cincinnati, St. Louis: Benziger Brothers, 1880). With Imprimatur, and the approbation of many prelates. May be read online, and available in pdf, mobi, epub, and other formats, at Internet Archive.
Preparation for Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary for Families, All Done in Union with St. Joseph, according to St. Louis De Montfort, with 40 Daily Meditations by Pope John Paul II, 4th edition, compiled and edited by Jerome F. Coniker (Bloomingdale, OH: Apostolate for Family Consecration, 2009). With Imprimatur. The ebook may be read online at Yumpu.
“Morality, Metaphysics, and the Romance of Friendship”, by Dr. Fiona Lynch, Communio, Volume 47, No.2 (Summer 2020): pp. 247-275. Available in pdf format through this page of Communio.
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Friends Forever: St. Augustine, Friendship, and Catholic Evangelism, by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M. Available in pdf format at Catholicism.org. [N.B., The canonical and doctrinal status of the association behind the website remains uncertain. Please exercise prayerful caution in reading the other texts thereon.]
“Humanae Vitae and the Perfection of Love”, by Prof. David S. Crawford, M.T.S., S.T.L., S.T.D., Communio, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Fall 1998): pp. 414-433. Available in pdf format through this page of Communio.
“For God, the Lord of life, has conferred on men the surpassing ministry of safeguarding life in a manner which is worthy of man…. Hence when there is question of harmonizing conjugal love with the responsible transmission of life, the moral aspects of any procedure does not depend solely on sincere intentions or on an evaluation of motives, but must be determined by objective standards. These, based on the nature of the human person and his acts, preserve the full sense of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love. Such a goal cannot be achieved unless the virtue of conjugal chastity is sincerely practiced. Relying on these principles, sons of the Church may not undertake methods of birth control which are found blameworthy by the teaching authority of the Church in its unfolding of the divine law.” (Second Vatican Council, Pastoral Constitution “Gaudium et Spes”, 51)
“Bonaventure’s Three-Fold Way to God” by Professor R.E. [Rollen Edward] Houser, Ph.D. in Medieval Masters: Essays in Memory of E.A. Synan, edited by R.E. Houser (Houston: University of St. Thomas – Center for Thomistic Studies 1999): pp. 91–145. Available in pdf format at the University of St. Thomas.
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