Neo-Evangelizing the Catholic Family with a Foreign Gospel

Thomas P. Mezzetti, Jr., M.D. and Jacintha C. Mezzetti

Dedicated to Father Karl Huller

Our appreciation to Dan and Kay Cummins, John and Sheila Kippley, Kathy Nesper, and Father William D. Virtue, S.T.D.

But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a child quieted at its mother's breast; like a child that is quieted is my soul. (Psalm 131)

Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me. (Matthew 25: 40)

 

CONTENTS:

PART I

Introduction
General Tone
Infant Feeding
Infant Sleeping
Parent-Child Interaction
Authority and Theology
Mother-Infant Bonding
Natural Law


PART II

Embodied Self Giving
Parental Sacrifice
Child's Place in the Family
Erroneous Theology of the Child
Discipline
Ezzo's Perspective
Conscience and the Will
Conclusion
Abbreviated Bibliography

3rd ed., 1998, Thomas Mezzetti
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