The Catholic Gentleman's Guide
Your guide to manly holiness.
GOING HOME TO GOD, AND BEATIFICATION As they aged, Luigi and Maria devoted even more time to prayer and contemplation within their home, becoming an example of piety to all who knew them. In 1951, he, Maria and the inseparable Enrichetta spent a last, beautiful day together in the mountains, shortly after which Luigi died … Read more
LIVING “FROM THE ROOF UP” In her moving work Radiography of a Marriage (1952), Maria wrote: “Since the birth of our first son, we began dedicating ourselves to the children, forgetting ourselves…. In order to love our children more, we tried to better ourselves by correcting our shortcomings and improving our characters…. We both felt … Read more
On October 21, 2001, an estimated 50,000 men, women and children defied threatening weather to crowd St. Peter’s Basilica and Square in Rome as Pope John Paul II declared as “blessed” Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi, the first beatified married couple of the Church. To the assembly, the Holy Father stated: “Maria and Luigi were … Read more
In a 5 video series on Fatherhood, Michael Voris of ChurchMilitant.com takes a look at the issue of masculinity and Fatherhood. While I hesitate to recommend Voris, his commentary on Fatherhood does contain a lot of food for thought and is delivered in a manner that is blunt and direct. I am in agreement that Fatherhood … Read more