Dads: Do We Have Our Act Together?
A friend once said to me, “You seem to have your act together on the fatherhood front. What’s your secret?” I was surprised and taken aback because I don’t think I have my act together at all. And I don’t mean that out of false humility. I pray every d…
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On the Feast of Saint Monica, I was reminded of all those parents who truly suffer when their children lack faith and break from the Church. This is true suffering in the sense that suffering is our ability to sense when we lack required goods, whether they be physical, psychological, social or spiritual. If suffering […]
The other day, I had a friend of mine text me about her child, who has anxiety and struggles with certain “scarier” aspects of Catholicism. Let’s be honest—at face value, there are a lot of things about our faith that could seem scary at first to a child—relics, martyrs, etc. But, in the proper context, […]
The great Bishop Fulton Sheen once remarked on his hit television show that if you “marry the spirit of the age… you become a widow in the next.” This phrase kept coming to the front of my mind last year when my wife and I were looking for children’s books to read to our newborn. […]
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