Pater Familias

"Men will take up arms and even sacrifice their lives for the sake of this love….when harmony prevails, the children are raised well, the household is kept in order, and neighbors, friends, and relatives praise the result. Great benefits, both of families and states, are thus produced. When it is otherwise, however, everything is thrown into confusion and turned upside-down.” --St. John Chrysostom

Monday, May 13, 2024

Take Good Care Now [la fin]

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Hi everyone, I think I've reached the point where it's time to retire.  It's not that I don't enjoy writing (I do), and it...
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Sunday, May 12, 2024

More Thoughts On Friendship, From the Isle of Inisherin

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  Last night I got around to watching the critically acclaimed dark comedy  The Banshees of Inisherin  (2022) with Colin Farrell and Brenda...
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Thursday, May 9, 2024

The Means and Ends of the Mass

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Note: I have submitted this piece to various publications, some of which I'm still waiting to hear back from. In the event it is publish...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Will & Grace...and the SSPX

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  I was just starting college when the NBC sitcom Will and Grace premiered in 1998. (Then) U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was quoted as sayi...
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Saturday, May 4, 2024

By Any Means Necessary

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 The other night I had a couple guys over for beers on the patio--one guy I knew fairly well, the other guy was friends with my friend, and ...
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Thursday, May 2, 2024

Theological Parsimony

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   St. Augustine, the wisdom-loving brilliant and talented rhetorician, was put off by the Christian scriptures initially after reading Cice...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Prediction: Podcasts Will Go The Way of MySpace

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I half-heartedly started the Rogan/Tucker Carlson interview (conversation? Idk what you call it these days) during a lull in my day. About ...
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Sunday, April 21, 2024

When You Don't Feel The Love

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Since Easter, I have been going through the motions in my faith life. Sunday Mass, daily morning offering, weekly holy hour, monthly Confess...
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Thursday, April 18, 2024

An Observable Proof of the Fewness of the Saved

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  “Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in ther...
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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Contraception in the Heat Of Summer: An Illustration

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Our home was built in the 1950's, a two story, brick split level. I would take a home built fifty years ago over today's stick-and-p...
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I am a happily married 44 year old Catholic father of three. I am not a professional Catholic. I am not an author. I am just an ordinary guy trying to get his family to Heaven, and leaving some breadcrumbs along the way. "I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone." --St. Francis of Assisi
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