Category: The Catholic Family

The Failing Integrity of Marriage Comes Home
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The Failing Integrity of Marriage Comes Home

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by on Sep 24, 2014 in Featured, Marriage, MyChurchParish.com, The Homosexual Agenda, The Social Order
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Despite our vigilance, the dissolution of the marriage ethic and the chaos that it creates have arrived on our doorstep. We live in an America that has become unmoored from nature and reality, where justice and mercy have been rejected and self-serving pleasure reigns. Living in a state where the spurious “marriage” of homosexuals remains […]

Does Sola Scriptura Work? Worldvision Clarifies The Issue
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Does Sola Scriptura Work? Worldvision Clarifies The Issue

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by on Sep 23, 2014 in Apologetics, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Marriage, MyChurchParish.com
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For Protestants, does Sola Scriptura work?  Is the Bible alone as an authority standard capable of promoting truth and unity among believers? One of the largest evangelical Protestant charity organizations, Worldvision, has offered a clear answer this year. On March 24, 2014, Worldvision U.S. President Richard Stearns announced that they were making a “very narrow […]

<em>Catholic Dad</em>—a Book to Inspire
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Catholic Dad—a Book to Inspire

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by on Sep 23, 2014 in Featured, Men, On Books, Parenting
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Society is schizophrenic on fatherhood. Studies show that by every conceivable measure, children are better off with fathers. Yet the entertainment world often portrays them as bumbling or non-essential. The feminist movement has furthered that notion because at least for some take-charge kind of women, men just get in the way anyways. But it isn’t […]

Building a Better Fatherhood
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Building a Better Fatherhood

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by on Sep 22, 2014 in Featured, Men, Parenting
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Cultural support for fatherhood has collapsed in the past 50 years, and there are few signs of a renewal. In light of this, how can fathers summon the courage to fulfill their mission? Their mission is two-fold: to love their wives and commit to providing for the total welfare of their child. Each of these […]

You’re Not My Type!
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You’re Not My Type!

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by on Sep 18, 2014 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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Nowadays, there is much talk of “types” in dating.  “He’s a nice guy, but he’s not my type.” “I don’t know a thing about her, but she is definitely my type”.  Friends and family chime in as well because apparently they are in tune with your “type.” But what is a “type”? I have come […]

Including People with Schizophrenia
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Including People with Schizophrenia

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by on Sep 18, 2014 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Health & Fitness, Those in Need
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My wife, LaRee, never knew her maternal grandmother: Her name was Dora and she suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. Dora was institutionalized in a mental hospital in 1932 at 34 years of age. Eighty-two years ago the shame and stigma of having a family member in a mental institution was so great that few people in the family […]

Ode to Feminine Genius: A Hospitable Woman
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Ode to Feminine Genius: A Hospitable Woman

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by on Sep 16, 2014 in Featured, Live in Christ, The Feminine Genius, Those in Need, Women
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Hospitality really isn’t having folks over for dinner or inviting ladies to tea (although I love to do this); it isn’t making sure our homes are in decent enough order to welcome drop-ins (although this is a good idea). It is much more radical. Much more uncomfortable. Much more beautiful. Reprinted with permission from Catholic […]

Preparing for Philadelphia 2015: A Liberty Bell for the Family
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Preparing for Philadelphia 2015: A Liberty Bell for the Family

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by on Sep 12, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Marriage, The Social Order
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A year from now, believers from around the world will gather with the Pope in Philadelphia to celebrate God’s gift of the family. Marked by the theme Love is our Mission: The Family Fully Alive, this will be the Eighth World Meeting  of Families. Established by Saint John Paul II, these regular world gatherings began […]

A New (Old) Tool for Bible Study
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A New (Old) Tool for Bible Study

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by on Sep 09, 2014 in Featured, Parenting, Uncategorized
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On a hot summer day the kids and I were headed to the grocery store. Our house doesn’t have air conditioning and it gets hot—the thermometer in the living room read 85 yesterday—at 9 PM!—so when we’re in the car we try to make up for it. We had the air conditioner cranked up as […]

Do Whatever Makes You Happy
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Do Whatever Makes You Happy

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by on Sep 05, 2014 in Columnists, Featured, Live in Christ, On the Job, Parenting
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These seemingly harmless well-intentioned words, can appear on the surface to be a wonderful wish for someone we love or care about. I submit to you however, that they are rather more platitude than love, and more harmful than good. The world is filled with people far more experienced than I in many areas of […]

Melinda Gates Wants to Help Women Around the World
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Melinda Gates Wants to Help Women Around the World

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by on Sep 03, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Health & Fitness
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So Why is the Wife of Microsoft Founder Raising Billions to Inject Them with Depo-Provera? Surely, Mrs. Gates would not have chosen this course if she knew the serious risks of Depo-Provera and if anyone—her Catholic parents, her Catholic high school teachers at the Ursuline Academy in Dallas or her parish priests (she attends Mass […]

A Wholesome Image
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A Wholesome Image

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by on Sep 02, 2014 in Featured, Parenting
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When the American Psychological Association (APA) issued a study in February 2007 on the sexualization of girls and the effects it has on them, there was hope that the report’s recommendations would lead to improvements in the culture. The study warned: “Girls learn about women’s expected roles in the world and strive to enact these […]

Silence - Finger Over Mouth
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Guard Your Mouth to a Happier Marriage

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by on Sep 01, 2014 in Featured, Marriage
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When we say I do we should also say, I won’t—I won’t use my words to hurt my spouse. Infidelity, addictions, and other major destructive behaviors can inflict mortal wounds on a marriage. But perhaps the greatest source of damage on relationships is the seemingly less harmful ones, particularly the cuts to the heart made through unkind speech. Sharp […]

Online Homeschooling Curriculums -- A Review: Part I
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Online Homeschooling Curriculums — A Review: Part I

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by on Aug 21, 2014 in Education, Featured
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You may be starting the new school year in mid to late August or not until after Labor Day weekend, but either way we have rounded the homestretch and the dig date is looming on the horizon. Whether this is your first time to homeschool or you have been schooling for a few years (or decades […]

Standing Tall
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Standing Tall

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by on Aug 20, 2014 in Education, Featured, On TV and Movies, Parenting, Sports
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Sports movies have a built-in source of drama. In every contest there are winners and losers, hard work and teamwork, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Yet such movies also can lapse into melodrama and cliché: slow-motion metaphors that elevate sports above other challenges of life. Yet the best sports movies fit […]

Pope Francis: Family Under ‘Attack’ from ‘Worldly Centers of Power’
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Pope Francis: Family Under ‘Attack’ from ‘Worldly Centers of Power’

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by on Aug 15, 2014 in Featured, Marriage
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Pope Francis echoed his two immediate predecessors last week when he told an international meeting on the family that the institution is under “the attacks of manipulation and dominance” from “worldly centres of power.” The family, the pope said, “is a centre of love, where reigns the law of respect and communion.” Francis was speaking […]

The Story of a Seminarian, From a Mom's Point of View
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The Story of a Seminarian, From a Mom’s Point of View

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by on Aug 13, 2014 in Featured, Parenting, Vocations, Women
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When I first became a mom, I was not quite 23 years old. I lived 3 hours away from my parents and my friends, and I had no idea what I was doing. I didn’t have the internet or blogs back in those days, I really felt like we were completely on our own. I […]

Ode to Feminine Genius: a Diligent Woman
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Ode to Feminine Genius: a Diligent Woman

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by on Aug 08, 2014 in Featured, The Feminine Genius, Women
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A Valiant Woman uses her time wisely. She works diligently to complete her daily tasks. She does not spend time dwelling on those things that do not please the Lord. She looks for ways to be organized and finds solutions to home keeping. Proverbs 31: 19, “She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her […]

The One-Year Itch
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The One-Year Itch

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by on Aug 07, 2014 in Catechesis, Featured, Live in Christ, Marriage
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About one year after a marriage begins, the married couple enters a period of disillusionment, says Dr. Phil Mango.  That’s when they realize that neither of them is perfect, and one person’s faults are reflected in the other person’s reaction almost daily. The same thing happens to newly ordained priests. After years spent in the seminary immersed […]

Five Books for the Catholic Mom’s Soul
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Five Books for the Catholic Mom’s Soul

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by on Aug 05, 2014 in Featured, On Books, Women
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Living my vocation is hard. So, so hard. However, when I truly invest myself completely in loving and serving these humans that God has given me, the graces flow and joy abounds. Its true, what they say: If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. To that end, over the last few years I’ve been seeking […]

A Special, Worldwide Church Focus on Family and Life
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A Special, Worldwide Church Focus on Family and Life

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by on Aug 04, 2014 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Marriage
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One of the greatest privileges of my life was to work under Pope St. John Paul II at the Vatican during the late 1990’s at the Pontifical Council for the Family, which fosters the pastoral activities of the Catholic Church on behalf of the family and the right to life. Both in public and private conversation at […]

Countercultural Revolutionaries
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Countercultural Revolutionaries

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by on Aug 01, 2014 in Featured, Health & Fitness, Marriage
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Natural Family Planning (NFP) Awareness Week was July 20-26, with the theme “Natural Family Planning: It’s Worth It. Join the Revolution!” – taken from an address of Pope Francis at World Youth Day 2013. The Holy Father asked the assembled youth to see marriage and family life in a new light and “to be revolutionaries” […]

Ode to Feminine Genius: A Frugal Woman
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Ode to Feminine Genius: A Frugal Woman

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by on Jul 30, 2014 in Featured, Marriage, Personal Finance, The Feminine Genius, Women
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A Frugal woman. Sounds kinda boring, doesn’t it? Like that woman wearing an ill-fitting jeans jumper that looks like it’s from 30 years ago, buying only day-old bread, never getting anything nice or new, and spouting off about how everyone should grow and grind their own flour, like her. Um yeah, I really don’t want to […]

Eyes Off The Road
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Eyes Off The Road

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by on Jul 25, 2014 in Featured, Live in Christ, Parenting
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I came upon my old Bible the other day, the one I read through from cover to cover twice, a TEV Protestant Bible, now incomplete to me, but still generating a holiness from within even when I touch its cover. I looked at the many scotch tape fixes, the numerous margin notes, the multiple dog […]