Beyond A Wing and A Prayer: A Catholic Vision of Masculinity

Last updated on: March 24, 2015 at 6:56 pm by Rachael Popcak and Dr. Gregory Popcak

Beyond A Wing and A Prayer: A Catholic Vision of Masculinity 2015-03-24T18:56:52-05:00 Rachael Popcak and Dr. Gregory Popcak

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Check out this terrific post at Catholic Exchange by Pastoral Solutions Institute clinical associate, Dave McClow.

“A wing and a prayer” is a saying about a plane that is badly damaged but makes the landing. Men have been in a sustained identity crisis, as I have alluded to elsewhere. Radical feminism sees men as the oppressors from which they need to be liberated. They are right if they are talking about brutal and domineering men, but not all men are this way. Men have been badly damaged by being seen as the oppressor just because they are men. This damage has created another problem—passive men. So men in an identity crisis are the beat-up plane. In my research and thinking about a Catholic vision of masculinity, I conclude that being a spiritual father is the summit of being a man. This is the core of all men’s identity: young, old, single, married, divorced, with or without kids. READ MORE

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