Love

Marriage implies the negation of self, and the negation of self is an invitation to God. When married, the individuals are no longer two, but are one flesh. Mt. 19:6. The self-centeredness that is the essence of the flesh is, by the very act of marriage, crippled. The

This month's Atlantic Monthly isn't that good, but there are a few gems in it, like this response [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200605/letters/4] by Caitlin Flanagan [https://thedailyeudemon.com/4378/] in the Letters to the Editor section. Flanagan apparently wrote a piece critical

This month's Atlantic Monthly wasn't nearly as good as most issues. Its cover story about online dating was alright, but scarcely worth the 9,000 words or so they used to cover it. The end of the story, however, had an interesting list of online dating

> Young Canadians are digitizing their sex lives, embracing computer screens and touching keyboards ever so gently in lieu of person to person contact, according to a new survey. > Some 87 percent of 2,484 students polled at 150 colleges and universities across Canada reported having "virtual sex&

TDE continues its day as "All Things Valentine" (it wasn't my intent upon waking up this morning, but so the blogging practice goes): > An employment law firm in Britain says that a third of businesses want Valentine's Cards banned from the workplace because

Few are better than the one in John Zmirak and Denise Matychowiak's The Bad Catholic's Guide to Good Living [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0824523008/thedailyeudem-20]. Link [http://www.godspy.com/reviews/Contraception-Bulimia-and-Frankenfoods-St-Valentine-and-the-Catholic-Theology-of-

> Growing numbers of Chinese couples are buying each other cosmetic surgery for Valentine's Day. > Clinics in Shanghai reported a boom in business in the run up to February 14, reports the Xinhua news agency. > Some pay for their partners to go under the knife while

I've gotten some grief for my Catholic Exchange column last week about not being "in love" with my wife, Marie, anymore. Link [http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=31817]. In that column, I wrote, > There's