Something one of our priests said in his homily a couple of weeks ago got me thinking about a way I could exercise my spiritual duties as father and husband. Father told an anecdote in his homily about a friend of his who set his cell phone to beep on the hour every day to [...]

“The Council of Dads” by Bruce Feiler is a memoir of his “Lost Year” in which he underwent treatment for bone cancer and his quest to ensure that his twin 3-year-old daughters would have men in their lives who embody all the best traits of their dad in the event he died. The book’s chapters [...]

Crossposted at Bettnet. We’re just about six weeks away from our delivery date for our new daughter, Sophia Therese. It’s funny that what worried me last time–labor, delivery, and what to expect being a new dad–is not what worries me this time. In fact, the actual delivery of the baby is hardly on my radar [...]

This isn’t meant to be a slam on anyone in particular, but I wonder if the Catholic Dads blog has lost its way. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of blogging about being a Catholic Dad anymore. Instead there are a lot of posts about the sort of random stuff people should probably put [...]

Crossposted to Bettnet.com Next to a man’s love for his wife, the other great joy in his life is his love for his children. So says Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa in homily for the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, which was almost a week ago. The title of the homily is “The Joys of Fatherhood.” Father [...]

Crossposted from Bettnet.com Time magazine has an article “Fatherhood 2.0 on the “new” notions of what it means to be a father. They note that more fathers are spending more time with their kids and are more active in raising them than previous generations were. Or are they? Here’s Times’s notion of what “traditional” fatherhood [...]

Cross-posted to Bettnet.com Last week during his homily for the Mass at the Proud2BCatholic Music Festival, Fr. Stan Fortuna responded to people who say they don’t go to Mass or they don’t like going to Mass because “it’s boring.” “You are deeply and profoundly bored before you walk into the church, and when you come [...]

Gerald at The Cafeteria is Closed asks a good question: What’s so great about children? Now, don’t misunderstand him. Gerald makes it clear that he understands the Church’s teachings on marriage and family and agrees with them and that he knows and understands the objective reasoning. What he wants is the subjective response: “Why do [...]

Crossposted at Bettnet. My friend Paul sent me this link to a blog by A Catholic Mom in Hawaii, which gives “Easy Ways to Evangelize in Advent,” but most of the 30 different suggestions are good ideas for families any time of year. We already do a few of these already, like “Pray every time [...]

“Leptunus Nex”, an active-duty US Navy Captain serving in the San Diego area, is not Catholic, as far as I can tell, but he’s a dad and a Christian and has a very interesting conversation with his teenage daughter about fatalism and free will (connected to the Va. Tech shootings). Here’s a taste, but you [...]