Institute of Catholic Culture

"The time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths." - 2 Timothy 4:2-6

"Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence."- 1 Peter 3:15

The Catholic Church’s struggle with Communism is central to understanding modern Church history. There is an element of conflict between Catholicism and Communism at the level of doctrine and politics, with rival conceptions of the common good.

Those who lived through the Cold War remember that it seemed a fixed condition of the world: two opposed blocs, locked essentially in a standoff, with the threat of nuclear annihilation a button’s push away. But three individuals—Reagan, Thatcher, and the Pope—saw beyond the deadlock and dared to move against an evil empire forged in blood and rejection of God.

"Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name; Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen."

"Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name; Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen."

Why are Americans being forced to consider homosexual acts as morally acceptable? Why has the U.S. Supreme Court accepted the validity of same-sex “marriage,” which, until a decade ago, was unheard of in the history of Western or any other civilization? Where has the “gay rights” movement come from, and how has it so easily conquered America?

Why are Americans being forced to consider homosexual acts as morally acceptable? Why has the U.S. Supreme Court accepted the validity of same-sex “marriage,” which, until a decade ago, was unheard of in the history of Western or any other civilization? Where has the “gay rights” movement come from, and how has it so easily conquered America?

"Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.'"- John 6:53-55

In his magnum opus, The City of God, St. Augustine of Hippo articulates how well-ordered societies originate in and proceed from well-ordered families. By referencing modern examples of social dysfunction that are the corporeal manifestations of the ideology of androgyny, while at the same time pointing to the lives of the saints, Fr. Bergman explains how the unapologetic restoration of the paterfamilias within Catholic households will rebuild Western civilization by enabling the contemplation and living out of God’s eternal truth.