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Male breast cancer and sexual aspects research and analysis (MASARA study): preliminary results
Authors: Mancino Matteo , Ferrara Francesca , Zanderigo Eloisa , Angelino Alessia , Iaccarino Ludovica , Belella Daniela , Orlandi Armando , Belli Paolo , Sala Evis , D’Angelo Anna 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Purpose
To evaluate the impact of male breast cancer and its treatment on patient’s sexual function, including changes in sexual desire, performance, and satisfaction. To investigate changes in the body image experienced by male breast cancer patients and their perception in accessing healthcare in hospital facilities.

Methods
We administered three online questionnaires using Google Forms (Google LLC) to male breast cancer patients treated at our Institution from 2015 to 2023. The surveys were provided in Italian and distributed from March 1st to April 1st, 2024. A panel of one breast radiologist, one oncologist and one clinical psychologist designed a 22-item tailored survey to investigate imaging follow-up routine, sexual habits before and after treatment and perceived male breast cancer stigma. The International Index of Erectile Function and Italian version of the Body Image Scale were also administered. Replies to the three questionnaires were analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis.

Results
Almost half of the patients completed the three questionnaires (33/70, 47%). The median age was 62 (IR 56–72). Only 27.8% were aware of male breast cancer prior to diagnosis. 86.1% (31/36) underwent regular breast imaging follow-up, with sexual activity declining during treatment. Endocrine treatment was reported by 63.9%. Discomfort was experienced, notably during interactions and communication about their condition. Erectile dysfunction was prevalent, with 18.2% reporting severe dysfunction. The average body image score was 9.1.

Conclusions
Our findings emphasize the importance of comprehensive care that attends to the full spectrum of emotional and social well-being beyond medical requirements in male breast cancer patients.
People of Clay and Stone: Indexing Other-than-Human Animacy and Collective Identity in Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico
Authors: Brzezinski Jeffrey S. 
Published: August 2024

AbstractThis article analyzes the assemblages of humans and other-than-humans that animated the sacred landscape of Cerro de la Virgen, a hilltop site occupied during the Formative period (1800 BC–AD 250) in the lower Río Verde Valley of coastal Oaxaca, Mexico. Commensalism in the region increased markedly in scope and complexity throughout the Formative period, culminating in the region's first polity at AD 100. Feasting practices became relatively standardized, but the placement of objects and bodies in public architecture—a set of collective practices associated with the vital forces that animated the cosmos—varied considerably from site to site during the late Terminal Formative period (150 BC–AD 250). Lower Verde scholars have argued that these idiosyncrasies reflect the myriad collective identities of the region's hinterland communities, a pattern rooted in local affiliations that may have conflicted with an expanding regional identity centered at the urban center of Río Viejo. I augment this discussion by highlighting the role that the materiality of the landscape, present before humans even occupied the region, played in the construction of collective identity. I develop an interpretive approach that pays special attention to Indigenous concepts of ontology, particularly those related to animacy and its transference, and uses the semiosis of American philosopher Charles Peirce to elucidate meaning from deposits of cached objects. The animate qualities assembled through fired clay and chiseled stone at Cerro de la Virgen afforded a ritual pattern that was unique in coastal Oaxaca at the end of the Formative period.
Dom John Chapman's Spiritual Letters
Authors: Walter Julian 
Published: August 2024

In my first article I suggested that the reader of Dom John's spiritual letters lost much because they are not arranged chronologically, I suggested that he should begin with the first three letters to a Jesuit, in which Dom John developed his rounded theological theory of the world, and then attempted to outline this theory; its outstanding characteristics seemed to me to be the importance given to God's will, both as ‘permissive’ and as expressing his good pleasure, and the importance given to contingency. In this second article I propose to follow the development of Dom John's theory and practice of contemplative prayer. In a final article I hope to be able to show how Dom John's study of de Caussade's writings enabled him to coordinate his spiritual life with his theological theory.Towards the end of the long letter written to his Jesuit friend expounding his theological theory, Dom John said: ‘I always tell people that our spiritual life must be managed like the War Office on business principles.
Suffer the Little Children
Authors: Campbell Duncan 
Published: August 2024

There is no mere mischievous intent in using for title part of the New Testament words about children, as amusingly translated; but a wish to deal helpfully, let's hope amusingly, and insist un-mischievously, with the problem of bringing children to their religion.We must be aware of prickling, hindering difficulties at once. A priest without any of the responsibilities and therefore any idea of the responsibilities of day-to-day handling of children isn't on first view the one qualified to write about it. Any excursions of his among them in family or school are, he must remember, always special occasions, often prepared-for events, with an excitement and a response at least different from normal. He will, however, be aware, if only dimly, of what underlies the orderliness and respectful attention he meets; the discipline (or threat of force, to you) that may keep family or school from bedlam, but certainly can make nonsense of what might be said, in mere sentiment and simplicity, about religion, as anything else.
What is the Church?—VII
Authors: McCabe Herbert 
Published: August 2024

Some people think that what is called the First Epistle of St Peter is not a letter but an address given by the leader of the first Christian bishops to a group of men and women who had just been baptized. Certainly a good deal of it is devoted by St Peter to an explanation of what it means to have become a Christian:You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Once you were people but now you are God's people… (I Peter 2.9-10.)
Saint Dominic
Authors: Watts Felix 
Published: August 2024

Doth not wisdom cry aloud and prudence put forth her voice ? Standing in the top of the highest places, by the way, in the midst of the paths, beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying, O men, to you / call, and my voice is to the sons of men! O little ones, understand subtlety, and ye unwise take notice! Hear, for I will speak of great things, and my lips shall be opened to preach right things. My mouth shall meditate truth and my lips shall hate wickedness. (Prov. viii, 1-7.)My dear brothers and sisters in St Dominic: I think that the Dominican vocation is the hardest of all, because it is the vocation of an apostle. It is true that all of us suffer from the results of Adam's sin. We can cry with the apostle of the Gentiles, ‘Who is weak, and I am not weak?’ We are all engaged in the struggle with our adversary, who goes about, like a roaring lion, to devour us.
A Note on Conversion
Authors: Congar Yves 
Published: August 2024

CONVERSION means by and large changing the main principle which governs the shape and direction of a human life. As such it may be for better or for worse; a man may commit himself to evil, he may decide against God, he can adopt Marxism, if he is a Catholic he may turn to Greek Orthodoxy or to Protestantism, if he is a Christian he may become a Jew or join a religion alien to our tradition. In short, what a psychologist may call a conversion, a moralist or canonist may call an apostasy.Moreover, a distinction can be drawn between a religious conversion and a moral conversion. The first is a matter of our ideas concerning God and the economy of salvation, a change of mind and an intellectual conviction which usually leads to the acceptance of the teaching of a religious body, and agreement with its practices.
The Catholic Evidence Guild in the Potteries
Authors: Salt Dennis 
Published: August 2024

It is 1936—or could be ‘39, or ‘29, or any of the pre-war years. The Catholic Evidence Guild speaker, in the market square, is surrounded by a motley crowd; some noisy, and angrily putting their point of view; others genuinely interested, ftod asking a carefully-thought-out question; some frankly bored, but hoping for blood to enliven the proceedings.How many of us were familiar with the scene—and few of us realized the full significance of what we saw.A speaker? Yes, we saw the speaker—heard him too—and were impressed with his lively answer, and obvious desire to impart his own love for his faith, to those who would listen to him. We rather wished that we had his courage, or his gifts, or both. But we didn't see the point of his speaking in the market square; it wasn't quite respectable, not the sort of thing that a real Catholic would drag his faith to.
The Origins and Tendencies of Contemporary Religious Sensibility
Authors: Schillebeeckx H. 
Published: August 2024

The survey that follows is translated from the French. It appeared in the Supplément de La Vie Spirituelle, No. 48, for the first quarter of 1959, and has also appeared in our Dutch Dominican contemporary Tijdschrift voor Geestelijk Leven. Fr Schillebeeckx is a Flemish Dominican, a distinguished theologian, and we hope that his assessment of certain continental developments will be of interest to our English readers, though it may appear strange, and not perhaps be found wholly congenial, to those only familiar with our island scene.TO understand the religious sensibility of our time, we have to return to the forms of Christian life which characterized the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The modern way of living the faith is very largely a reaction against these older forms.
The Greek Response to the Council
Authors: J-M. d'A.  
Published: August 2024

HISTORY has a sphere and the world a place where Athens and Rome seem for ever linked together: civilization and Jerusalem! The civilization of the ancient world owed its spirit to Athens, and its law and order to Rome: both played a part, under the providence of God, in forming that world in which, in the fulness of time, the Word was made flesh. But it was from Jerusalem that both Rome and Athens received the faith of Christ—the faith which is now their life, and in which both were reborn. Since the time of the apostles, these two cities have looked to Jerusalem as the eartlily shadow of their heavenly capital and the cradle of their common hope.But if that common hope of theirs, in the person of our Saviour, were to return today to the holy city where he prayed and preached and suffered and died for love of us, in order to establish his kingdom in our midst, he would fmd there, alas, no greater unity than he found before.
The Forthcoming Council of the Roman Church
Authors: Florovsky George 
Published: August 2024

Fr George Florovsky is a Russian Orthodox theologian of repute, at present teaching at Harvard in the United States. We are happy to print here a translation of an article which first appeared in Russian in the Messenger of the Russian Christian Students Movement, and then in a French translation in Vers L'Unité Chrétienne./rom which this translation is made. We thank the editors of both journals for permission to publish an article so remarkable for its calm objectivity and its understanding and appreciation of the Roman Catholic position.The Vatican Council (1869-70), by the reckoning of the Roman Church, was the last ‘ecumenical council'. This council has never been formally closed. Its labours were only temporarily interrupted by the pressure of outside events, the occupation of the Papal States and the city of Rome by the troops of nationalist Italy, which at the time appeared to threaten the freedom of the council's decisions and even the freedom of the Church itself.
The Spiritual Life of a Mission
Authors: Humphreys Nicholas 
Published: August 2024

This article is concerned with the spiritual life of a mission, and. not with the spiritual life of a missionary. That is a different matter. A man may be a saint but yet unsuited to missionary work, as a good concert singer may be unsuited to opera. If the missionary can be both saint and missionary, well and good, but the essential thing is that he be a good missionary, understanding the technique of the work.What is the root purpose of missionary work? The answer is simple: it is not merely to convert a number of people, to build a school, to teach the children to sing hymns—and wear European clothes?—but to plant the Church. The spiritual life of a mission means the spiritual life of the mystical body, lived by the people there. It means the Church as she is in herself, as the popes have written about her in encyclicals, as the great ages of the Church have known her, and as history has revealed her.
The Transfiguration in the Byzantine Liturgy
Authors: Marinoff Irene 
Published: August 2024

The Feast of the Transfiguration on 6th August is one of the major feasts of the Byzantine rite. It is the feast of light and has a significant position in the cycle of the mysteries of Christ. Ontologically speaking it lies between the mystery of the Incarnation, celebrated at Christmas, and the redemptive suffering followed by the Resurrection of Easter Sunday. At Christmas the Eternal Light shone forth in human shape ‘from a virginal cloud'. At Easter he breaks the chains of death and reveals his risen glory. On Thabor he empowers his disciples to recognize him through the veils of flesh.The Transfiguration comprises all the mysteries of the divine economy, and is an inexhaustible treasure of spiritual wisdom. Already in the first vespers of the ante-feast on 5th August we find the following prayer:Come let us mount with Jesus in his ascent to the holy mountain, and there hear the voice of the Eternal Father (lit.: who has no beginning), bearing witness by a light cloud and the Holy Ghost to the nature of his Eternal Sonship: illumined in the spirit we shall, in the light, behold the Light.
Sermon for Our Lady's Birthday—II
Authors: Bernard S. T. 
Published: August 2024

‘How can that be', said Mary, ‘since I have no knowledge of man?'—and in these words showed herself holy in body and spirit, a virgin without stain and vowed to rem.ain so. The angel answered her, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Don't question me about it', he said. ‘This plan is far beyond my reach, and no thought of mine can attain it. It is the Holy Spirit, not an angelic spirit, that will come upon you, and you will be overshadowed by the power of the Most High, not by any power of mine.'Mary must not be content with a place among the angels; the parched earth cries out to her for relief that they could never and she will scarcely have left them behind when she will find what her soul longs for.
Sheep Among Wolves
Authors: Hill Edmund 
Published: August 2024

‘Behold, I send you as sheep among wolves; be you therefore as cunning as serpents and as simple as doves’ (Matt, x, 16).Our Lord spoke these words to the apostles when he was sending them out for their first piece of apostolic work, and the Dominican order is quite explicitly and openly an apostolic order. It was founded by St Dominic to carry on the work of the apostles, the work of preaching the gospel. All the different branches of the order, the second and third orders as much as the first, are all caught up in this apostolic function, but of course in different ways and degrees. In the fullest way it is the priests and brothers of the first order who are given this apostolic function. Officially and authoritatively it is our business, not yours, to preach the gospel by the spoken and written word and by all our priestly activities.
Hermits and Canonical Status
Authors: Winandy Jacques 
Published: August 2024

The present code of canon law makes no mention of hermits. However, it would be wrong to interpret this silence as a condemnation. At the time when the code was compiled, indeed practically since the French Revolution, the solitary life had all but disappeared from the western Church. Those few who followed it, if there were any at all, did not justify any particular legislation. The Church had no intention of making laws for a manner of religious life that no longer existed and, from all appearances, no one had any intention of reviving.But contrary to all one would have thought, since the last war the eremetical life has again come into favour. In many places but especially in the monastic orders rather clear tendencies and desires have arisen for this ancient form of asceticism and for this way of giving oneself to God. And some of these aspirations have been realized with an admirable simplicity and seriousness.
Holiness and Perfection
Authors: Lewry Osmund 
Published: August 2024

Israel's first call to holiness was full of the awe of Sinai, that dread meeting with God on the mountain:I am the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might be your God.You shall be holy, because I am holy. (Lev. xi, 45-46.)So far from being ‘a serious call to a devout life', this shattering contact with the ‘wholly other’ is the very source of their life as a people. They live constantly in the memory of this encounter; they respond to its claims with a fanatical insistence on their separateness. The Red Sea divides them now from a profane world; they have been brought out of Egypt to be shattered and remoulded around this experience. God has spoken to them out of the thunders and lightnings of the holy mountain, and in that moment of history they have been set apart; still trembling in the grip of that fearful revelation Israel grows to nationhood as a chosen people.
Lives of Saints for Children
Authors: Haughton Rosemary 
Published: August 2024

In talking about lives of saints for children, I have divided the subject up into three sections according to age. This is arbitrary, but I had to divide it somehow. The first section is about children under seven, the second from seven to twelve, and the third from thirteen to sixteen or seventeen, or perhaps for boys a bit later. There are of course enormous changes withio these age ranges, but the great upheaval caused by the dawn ot reason and conscience, and the still greater changes that take place at puberty are some justification for this. It is clear that a lot oj what I say applies to all the groups, and that all such general divisions are to some extent misleading and annoying, but could see no way of avoiding them without chaos.The interest of a child in saints can be said to begin only when he first asks ‘What is a saint?’. Children between four and seven are of an age to enjoy stories about saints in the same way that they enjoy stories about witches, princesses and dragons.
The Making of an Image
Authors: Clark Michael 
Published: August 2024

Christian art in its broad sense is generally taken to mean. any creative work done by an artist who is a ticul professing Christian. Today I wish to consider a particular aspect of Christian art, that is work carried out for, and applied to churches, chapels, or schools, with particular reference to images of the Saints.In the first place let us consider the attitude of mind the artist should have in his approach to the problems of ecclesiastical art. It almost goes without saying that the Christian artist should have a sound knowledge of his Faith, and that he should be to some extent aware of contemporary Christian life and thought. In fact the visual arts must be part of this ever developing and active intellectual life of the Church, if they are to rise above the general level of the stagnant trade tawdriness of the work in many of our churches.
Spiritual Direction
Authors: William  
Published: August 2024

One of the most obvious things in. the world today is the fact that a priest cannot fulfil his sacerdotal function without being a spiritual director. It is not enough to administer the sacraments and preach the word of God in general from the pulpit. He must convince his flock of the message of Christ by an ‘I-Thou’ relationship born of a highly personal commitment, which we can refer to here as spiritual direction. The desire and need for spiritual direction on the part of the laity has been expressed persistently, pleadingly, over a rather long period of time. It can no longer be ignored. It is imperative that all priests respond with zeal, intelligence, and untiring labour.So many Christians have become aware of their apostolic responsibility and at the same time are conscious of their spiritual poverty.
Encounter With God in the Old Testament
Authors: Bourke Joseph 
Published: August 2024

‘As the kingdom of God in its perfect form does not lie in mere knowledge, but rather in the life that the knowledge awakens, so it could not be prepared for by the mere knowledge that it was approaching, nor even by the knowledge, outwardly communicated, of what it was. It could be prepared for only by bringing in, and that in ever fuller tides, the life of which it consists…. What we meet in the Old Testament are two concrete subjects and their relation. The two are: Jehovah, God of Israel on the one hand, and Israel, the people of Jehovah, on the other; and the third point, which is given in the other two, is their relation to one another. And it is obvious that the denominating or creative factor is the relation to Jehovah.’Thus a very great theologian, nowadays somewhat neglected, has defined the scope and significance of the old testament. It is the record of a people chosen from among the peoples to live in the light-giving and life-bringing presence of Yahweh, and to draw from that presence ‘in ever fuller tides’ supernatural light and life. And this process is to continue until at last the Light of the World comes ‘that they may have life and have it abundantly’ (Jn. 10,10).
St Ignatius Loyola, Soldier of Christ
Authors: Potter Roland 
Published: August 2024

These are the words of the Apostle St Paul, penned nearly nineteen hundred years ago; words which would fall admirably from the lips of a St Ignatius; were it not that the Saint, in his lovable humility, would be the last to think that such words could apply to himself.Yet they do speak of him. For the words of the Apostle are the words of Scripture; and the words of Scripture are the words of God; and the words of God have a timeless character, and so a value at all times. Thus it is that without undue violence we can read these words of St Ignatius who went to God on July 31st four hundred years ago. It is this going to God, and then more especially the wonder of a lasting and living and growing work for God that we commemorate in this its four hundredth year.
The Conquest of Fear
Authors: Orchard W. E. 
Published: August 2024

There are some people who are said not to know what fear is. If there are any such, which is doubtful, they are generally to be found among those who do not think or have no imagination. Their very lack of fear often brings them into inescapable danger, and then they are surprised that they are not ready for death. It has been said that everyone is afraid; only the brave confess it.There are certainly some people who are so timid in their disposition, or nervous in their temperament, that they are constantly tortured by fear. They are afraid of almost everything; they are afraid when they need not be; indeed they are afraid of things that do not even exist. Some are in such a state of fear, yet cannot tell precisely what it is that they are afraid of; it is fear they are afraid of, and of what they know not.