Dear Faithful,

Continue to pray for the Gaza Catholics. There Church has suffered from a military attack. The enemies of God controlling that region and responsible for the violence there of course regret it.

I don't know anything about this "biblical man." Probably he is a Protestant but he explains well the attack on the family. What he says happened did happen. This video, fifteen minutes, is worth a listen. He speaks slowly I put it at 2x speed. But what he doesn't mention is the more current situation of motherless families. A motherless family is probably richer than a fatherless family but it would be more miserable. And worse for society. I saw a cartoon. A little boy sitting on Santa Claus's lap. "I want a mummy!" A completely normal little boy wanting what he has a right to have.

In 1963 my father was a skilled tradesman. A typesetter at the Detroit News. To be a typesetter you had to have a large vocabulary, be a good speller, and be dexterous. His 'take home' pay, i.e., after taxes were deducted, was $200. per week. He bought our house, full basement, ground floor with kitchen, dining room, living room and a 'half-bath', three bedrooms and a bathroom 'upstairs' and above that an attic on a 30 foot by 120 foot land with a large mature apple tree, good for climbing, in the backyard and a mature grapevine, sweet green eating grapes, on the fence, for $5,000. The apples were not good for eating but mom made apples sauce from them. Just made apple sauce hot off the stove was a real treat. Dad put a dark room for developing film and printing pictures in the basement. Six months wages to buy a house for the family.

What biblical man says is true. There was a systematic attack on the family.

Another thing that he doesn't mention is contraception. That was sold to woman as liberation but in fact it also contributed to the destruction of the family and the enslavement of women. It enabled 'decent' woman to behave as harlots.

Also boys raised in single parent, that is, mother only, families, are generally not suitable to be fathers of families. There would be exceptions of course, but a girl should be very careful about getting involved with a boy who grew up without a father. He will probably never become a man. We should pray for all the single mothers.

Lord have mercy on us.
We need pray and penance. Fifteen decades a day.

St. Vincent de Paul, pray for us.
Fr. MacDonald

In 1950:

73% of kids had married parents

Home cost 2.2x annual income

62% owned homes by 1960

One income = middle class life

Today:

Only 46% have married parents

Homes cost 9x annual income

47.5% of single moms in poverty

Two incomes = barely surviving

The Frankfurt School called families "authoritarian incubators." Planned their destruction. We bought it.

Betty Friedan compared suburban life to cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρs. While having a full-time maid. Never actually lived it.

Conviction: Result?

85% of youth prisoners from fatherless homes

71% of dropouts from broken families

90% of runaways have no dad

We traded prosperity for poverty. Stability for chaos. All for a lie.

Still think destroying the nuclear family was "progress"?

The enemy was never the family. The enemy was those who convinced us to destroy it.

Time to rebuild what worked.

Note: the as long as a mother shows herself single on docuмents, they receive cash benefits, food stamps, medical paid for, and job all thanks to the federal gov't, us.

A home cost 2.2x annual income in 1950.
A home costs 9x annual income in 2025.

Everything is more expensive. Marriageable singles are much fewer for traditional Catholics. In general, a minimum of two incomes are needed to buy a home. Add many children to the equation, lack of jobs with survivable wages, college or other debts, decreased likelihood of family support, and it’s no lazy excuse that fewer young adults are marrying, having children, are self-supporting. Societal deterioration affects traditional Catholics in the wallet just like everyone else.
Think carefully and restrain your tongue before criticizing or condemning tradition, the older generations, or the young trads themselves.

A home cost 2.2x annual income in 1950.
A home costs 9x annual income in 2025.…

I’m more concerned about grid collapse on a massive scale.