At Sports Illustrated, Joe Posnanski writes the best thing I’ve read about the perfect-game-that-should’ve-been: … There was something beautiful lost in the Jim Joyce fiasco, something that I hope I remember for as long as I remember the blown call. Yes, it’s hard to think about beautiful things when you have just watched one of [...]

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From the Fathers for Good website put out by the Knights of Columbus: Another Catholic in the House As a surprise victor in the congressional district that includes New Orleans, Anh Joseph Cao is the “man of the hour” in the current news cycle. Yet with his strong family values and Catholic faith, which he [...]

I’d like to recommend that you read Victor Morton’s movie review of “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl”. Here’s a snippet that should be of interest to all you Catholic dads: … The highest praise I can give KIT KITTREDGE is that I liked it at all. It’s enjoyable and very effective, but to a 10-year-old [...]

Catholic Dads gets a mention in Eric Scheske’s most recent monthly column for National Catholic Register: …Blogging Fatherhood This dual desire — the desire to be holy and the desire to be a good father — thrives in the blogosphere. A quick trip through Catholic cyberspace will reveal a small army of anti-Rousseaus. If you [...]

(Hat tip: Rick Garnett at Mirror of Justice) Archbishop Charles J. Chaput at the First Things blog On the Square: … Never before had a religion taught that God loved people personally and that God’s love began before the person was even born. Abortion and birth control were rampant in the Roman Empire. Christians rejected [...]

From Associated Press (via Breitbart): NEW YORK (AP) – So you’re between the ages of 13 and 24. What makes you happy? A worried, weary parent might imagine the answer to sound something like this: Sex, drugs, a little rock ‘n’ roll. Maybe some cash, or at least the car keys. Turns out the real [...]

Since tomorrow is the feast day of St. Thomas More, I thought this essay by Steve Wood on St. Thomas More as a model Christian father to be an appropriate subject for Catholic Dads: …The saints are a vibrant witness on how to practically live the Christian life. A man seeking to be a good [...]

Donald DeMarco writes in the June 17-23 issue of the National Catholic Register about the “paradoxes of fatherhood”: …Fatherhood means being: 1. A leader without being a frontrunner. Our prevailing notion of leader comes from the worlds of sports and from politics. In this sense, in accordance with the “leader board” in golf, the leader [...]

Fr. Dwight Longenecker calls our attention to the National Catholic Men’s Conference, sponsored by St. Joseph’s Covenant Keepers, in Greenville, SC on June 9: Steve Wood used to be a Prebyterian pastor. He’s now a Catholic and runs Family Life Center, has the Faith and Family show on EWTN, started St Joseph’s Covenant Keepers–an apostolate [...]