Category: Men

Making Time for the Good Things
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Making Time for the Good Things

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It’s easy, as a dad, to come up with all sorts of reasons why spending time on work is a top priority. We can easily forget that one of the primary purposes of work is to ensure health and well-being for our families. And we can wind up allowing the goodness and excitement of work […]

The Other Woman
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The Other Woman

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I overheard him make the plans.  On his way home from work he picked up the perfect wrist corsage.  He wore his nicest suit, and waved to the kids and I as he drove to her house to pick her up for a night of dancing. I knew all about her, but I was okay. […]

Corporate Ladder to Heaven
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Corporate Ladder to Heaven

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Randy Hain is a model of a man with an “attitude of gratitude,” and his new book tells something of his personal journey from a man with little hope to one with much to be thankful for. Raised a Southern Baptist, he left that church for pursuit of his own worldly goals, but God kept […]

Ravens Player: Super Safety
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Ravens Player: Super Safety

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Sean Considine, a safety for the Baltimore Ravens, is the first to point out that he belongs to some important families – God’s family, the family of his parents, his hometown community, the family he shares with his wife and four children, and the NFL. “My Catholic faith has played a huge role in my […]

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A Second Look at Confession

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If you ask any priest, he will tell you that one of the biggest dangers attacking healthy marriages in the Church today comes from pornography.  When you consider that kids from healthy Catholic marriages are a lot likelier to develop a strong faith, this is a problem that affects more than just the individual couple; it impacts […]

Advent: A Time to Prepare Our Hearts to Receive Jesus More Deeply
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Advent: A Time to Prepare Our Hearts to Receive Jesus More Deeply

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But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man’s decision but of God. (John 1:12,13) All good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down […]

Advent: A Time to Prepare for the Lord’s Coming
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Advent: A Time to Prepare for the Lord’s Coming

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He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him. But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in […]

Texas Surgeon Gives Hope to Sterilized Men Seeking Wholeness
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Texas Surgeon Gives Hope to Sterilized Men Seeking Wholeness

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Dr. Mark Hickman would try to talk any man out of having a vasectomy any day. He would begin by telling them all the horror stories that he has heard from the many men who have undergone the invasive procedure that unnaturally blocks tubes that are designed to carry sperm out of a man’s body. […]

Marriage According to God or Man?
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Marriage According to God or Man?

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Editors note: This was given as a homily on Sunday, October 14th, 2012 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in New Brighton, MN. The gospel was for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, Mark 10:17-30. Recently I spoke with a senior at a Catholic high school and he was telling me that […]

40 Days for Life: <em>"It's My Baby, Too!"</em>
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40 Days for Life: “It’s My Baby, Too!”

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In a recent talk during this 40 Days for Life campaign, I mentioned that the pro-life movement is made up of sinners. We are all sinners and the pro-life effort includes many who have had abortions, doctors who have done abortions and thousands who at one point sincerely defended abortion but are now pro-life. Many […]

Prayer Can Move Mountains – Or Churches
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Prayer Can Move Mountains – Or Churches

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When my wife and I were dating, she would travel quite a bit as a part of her job. On one occasion, we had a conversation about whether she would be able to attend Mass on Ash Wednesday during her travels. She explained that where they stayed in the city she was going to, there […]

The Importance of Community in Living Out Our Faith
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The Importance of Community in Living Out Our Faith

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For I am not ashamed of the gospel. It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: for Jew first, and then Greek. (Romans 1:16) The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. Two […]

Fathers: The Responsibilities of Headship
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Fathers: The Responsibilities of Headship

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I am going to go out on a limb here and talk a little about Ephesians Chapter 5.  First let’s quote it, and then I’ll proceed to my thoughts on the topic: “Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.  Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord.  For the husband is […]

Chivalry is Not Chopped
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Chivalry is Not Chopped

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I got the rare chance the other night to watch the Food Network show, Chopped. I have seen the show maybe two or three times. It’s an interesting premise. Professional chefs challenge each other to create something delectable and wildly authentic using the most ridiculous combination of ingredients, in a constrained, high pressure feat of culinary […]

Men and Contraception: Loving Our Wives & Laying Down Our Lives
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Men and Contraception: Loving Our Wives & Laying Down Our Lives

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Recently, I noticed that our editor had put out a call to some of our female columnists to address a newly released study by the Archdiocese of Baltimore about Catholic women and contraception. Suffice it to say that the survey of Church-going Catholic women found that a substantial minority were in agreement with the Church’s […]

Of Mice and Men: New Study Touts a Male Contraceptive
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Of Mice and Men: New Study Touts a Male Contraceptive

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Elizabeth Crnkovich also contributed to this article. Radical feminists have long dreamed of “fixing” men, so that women could be relieved of the burden of birth control. Now comes a new study on mice purporting to show that men can be chemically neutered, supposedly without side effects. Male birth control has been the object of much research […]

Do Women Still Need Men?
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Do Women Still Need Men?

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There seems to be a growing idea in our world today that we don’t actually need men for much more than their “contribution” to the furthering of the human race. This idea has become so prevalent that an opinion piece about it has made its way to the New York Times.  Greg Hampikian, the author […]

Winning the Battle against Temptations
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Winning the Battle against Temptations

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Whoever endures to the end will be saved. (Matthew 10:22) For I know well the plans I have in mind for you—oracle of the LORD—plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope. When you call me, and come and pray to me, I will listen to […]

Morality in Medicine: Advice From Dr. Fox
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Morality in Medicine: Advice From Dr. Fox

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Dr. Paul Fox has been a family physician for over three decades in the sticks of rural Virginia,  Florida and western Pennsylvania where he earned the respect and trust of his peers and patients. He and his wife have four children and six grandchildren. Dr. Fox is a convert to Catholicism and worships in the Byzantine […]

Special Ops Sergeant on Starvation
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Special Ops Sergeant on Starvation

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In March of 2007, less than a month after I had turned twenty-two years old, I was deployed to Afghanistan with my engineer unit. I would remain in Afghanistan, with the exception of twenty day’s vacation in January of 2008, for the next fifteen months. At that point in my life my faith was quietly […]

 Using the Gifts God Has Given You, Part 4
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Using the Gifts God Has Given You, Part 4

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Please read Using the Gifts God Has Given You, Part 1, Using the Gifts God Has Given You, Part 2 and Using the Gifts God Has Given You, Part 3. The spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him: a spirit of wisdom and of understanding, a spirit of counsel and of strength, a spirit […]

The Two Become One Fry
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The Two Become One Fry

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In my position with the Diocese of Toledo, I get to instruct people on the joys of Catholic marriage: The two become one flesh. Marriage is gift of self. My path to holiness is through my spouse. Marriage is free, total, faithful, and fruitful. As Christ died on the cross for his bride the Church, […]

In the Absence of Fathers: A Story of Elephants and Men
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In the Absence of Fathers: A Story of Elephants and Men

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Wade Horn, Ph.D., President of the National Fatherhood Initiative, had an intriguing article entitled “Of Elephants and Men” in a recent issue of  Fatherhood Today magazine. I found Dr. Horn’s story about young elephants to be simply fascinating, and you will too. Some years ago, officials at the Kruger National Park and game reserve in South Africa […]

Multi-Tools: What's in Your Pocket?
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Multi-Tools: What’s in Your Pocket?

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I cannot remember why I came across EDC or Everyday Carry, but it kept me busy for a little while just trying to see what other men carry.  As you can see, these guys carry a mixture of things from the useful and small to compact and rare.  Common pocket dwellers include: keys, pen, wallet, pocket knife, […]