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We spend plenty of time thinking about the house we want, the right neighborhood, and the life we hope to give our families. But a Catholic home is built by more than walls. It takes shape when we welcome, sacrifice, pray, work, forgive, and eat together. From there, it reaches outward into parish, neighborhood, school, and community.
What kind of home are we building?
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Strong Home. Stronger Community.
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What happens when Christians become more intentional about the homes, communities, and institutions that shape their lives? In The Benedict Option, Rod Dreher looks to the Benedictine tradition for principles that can strengthen ordinary Christian life: prayer, discipline, hospitality, stability, work, family, worship, and community. His proposal is not that Christians become monks or withdraw from the wider culture. Rather, he argues that strong Christian families need strong Christian communities, and that both require deliberate formation.
That can mean strengthening local churches, building schools, recovering neglected practices, sharing life with other families, and creating communities capable of passing the faith from one generation to the next. Dreher’s larger argument is provocative, and readers need not embrace every conclusion to wrestle with his central question: Are the homes and communities we are building helping us become the people God calls us to be?
Rod Dreher is an American author and journalist and a former Roman Catholic who is now Eastern Orthodox. His books include The Benedict Option, How Dante Can Save Your Life, Live Not by Lies, and Living in Wonder. The Benedict Option was published in 2017 and is addressed broadly to Christians: Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox.
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When Home Is Out of Reach |
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There is another, much more literal challenge to building a home: increasingly, families are struggling simply to afford one. For generations, homeownership has been closely associated with stability, family life, and the American dream. Today, rising housing costs have put that foundation out of reach for many families.
In this short EWTN News segment, Fr. Stephen Koeth, assistant professor of history and researcher at the University of Notre Dame, explains how housing became so unaffordable and what that means for middle-class families. The question of home, then, isn’t only what kind of home are we building? For many families, it begins one step earlier: Can we afford a place in which to build it?
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