Somehow, incredibly, this celibate, elderly man often doled out some of the best and most valuable parenting advice I’ve received along the way.
Family Life
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Ash Wednesday services remind us of death. I bring my children anyway.
If end-of-life care matters, surely it can be strengthened by beginning-of-life wisdom. On this first day of Lent and year-round, I want to model for my children clear-eyed acceptance of what we cannot control and agency in what we can.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
I left the church. Now my kids are embracing it.
We often hear from readers who worry about how to pass the Catholic faith on to their children. This week’s episode of Jesuitical takes this question and looks at it in reverse.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Catholic bishops can—and should—do more to help homeschooling parents
Prohibiting homeschooling parents from using parish facilities can make it more difficult for them to provide a comprehensive Catholic education.
Posted inFaith, Features
Soccer vs. Sunday Mass: How youth sports are undermining religion—and hurting our kids
As both father and priest, what worries me most is the spiritual damage I see done to our children as they are scheduled away from both the dinner table and the altar.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What researching my ancestry taught me about being an adopted child of God
We are not only the family of God because of an act of love but, because he was born as one of us, we are now also biologically like God. We are genetically related to him because he became one of us.
Posted inFaith, Features
The joy and the pain of being a Catholic foster parent
If foster care works as it is designed to, that sacrifice will lead to goodbyes. The tension can be brutal. It’s also profoundly Christlike.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Advice for (and from) millennials for living in the middle of it all
We need to remember that even in the middle of dealing with whatever big thing is happening now: We are alive.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Climate change is not only an environmental crisis. It also threatens families and traditional values.
We have recently seen entire communities wiped off the map by wildfires fueled by ever-hotter weather. This has grave implications for tradition, family and other goods that social conservatives value.
Posted inFaith in Focus, Politics & Society
How parents can avoid passing on election stress to their children
Advice from a Jesuit psychologist in training