February 2012

I’ve got some fun stuff for you today. First, a snappy little video on Our Sunday Visitor’s website introducing their features books. As you may have guessed, Strengthening Your Family is one of them: http://www.osv.com/BooksNav/OSVBooksHome/tabid/80/Default.aspx It’s quite a humbling experience to see my book keeping company with Cardinal Wuerl’s and Read more…

Friends, I love it when folks comment on my blog! I also love the opportunity to post guest blogs, when they’re appropriate. Today I have a guest blog from author Carol Paur, who had some interesting and valid points regarding the controversial HHS mandate and ObamaCare. She wrote the following Read more…

The battle for our religious freedom not only continues, but has worsened. The HHS mandate forcing religious institutions to provide contraceptives, including abortion-causing drugs and sterilization, to all employees free of charge still holds, in spite of the wide-spread and determined protest of members of various denominations. The Obama Administration’s Read more…

Wives, would you dump a dinner because it didn’t smell good to your husband? Husbands, would you let her do it? Here’s my latest on Fathers for Good: http://www.fathersforgood.org/ffg/en/husband_wife/archive/reverencing_spouses.html It’s St. Valentine’s Day…make your spouse feel like royalty!

Have you ever made a dopey mistake that turned out to be not-so-dopey? I do it quite often. My latest column for Catholic Lane tells about the not-so-dopiest mistake I’ve made so far. Here’s the link: http://catholiclane.com/god-bless-you/

In my book, Strengthening Your Family: A Catholic Approach to Holiness at Home, I give considerable attention to charitable admonishment between family members, giving some very practical guidance for doing so. In his Lenten message for 2012, Pope Benedict XVI speaks in a most beautiful way about the same kind Read more…