Just to remind you that it is this Sunday! ========================================== Something like two years ago, when I first joined the Catholic Dads, I noticed that frequent poster, John Jensen, was from the Chicagoland area. We began to communicate by e-mail and were pleased to find out that he frequently took his family to my parish [...]

WARNING: THE IDEA THAT THESE ARE “NEW AGE ROSARIES” MAY BE A HOAX. THE CHURCH HAS NOT SAID ANY OF THESE ROSARIES ARE TROUBLESOME. THE DEVIL, HOWEVER, WOULD LOVE NOTHING MORE THAN TO HAVE US DESTROY ROSARIES AND TO WORRY ABOUT THEM INSTEAD OF PRAYING AND TRUSTING IN OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THE BLESSED [...]

Some years ago, I was sitting on my front steps watching my two youngest as they drew in chalk on the sidewalk. This was a pretty usual thing. Wife-mate and I would come home from work, she would need time to make dinner, and so I would take the kids out front, or maybe to [...]

I have a situation on my hands. It began serendipitously enough when my daughter was on the bus to school and couldn’t face another lemon session from her cranky friend D—. So, just to keep from talking to D—, my daughter pulled out her rosary and said she felt like saying it rather than talking [...]

NJ girl, 14, arrested after posting nude pics TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A 14-year-old New Jersey girl has been accused of child pornography after posting nearly 30 explicit nude pictures of herself on MySpace.com — charges that could force her to register as a sex offender if convicted. The case comes as prosecutors nationwide pursue [...]

Back when I was a godless communist, we all drank our coffee black because “lathering” your coffee (i.e. putting in cream and/or sugar) was bourgeois consumerism. The communist analysis of this has actually proven correct, as the rise of Starbucks illustrates. Our urban bourgeois (the so called “Yuppies”) have become ever more extravagant consumers of [...]

My parents just expected me to know things. Like my father, who was always spouting off something like: “That Mac Churchill is a regular Sammy Glick!” “Who?” I would ask. “Mac Churchill!” he would rail, naming a business associate that I had met many times. “No, who’s Sammy Glick?” “You know!” he would say, as [...]

I had a couple of random thoughts this morning: • A few months back, my friend Kat asked me to pray for her brother, whose has chronic leg problems had gotten worse of late. He never gets out of the house, I never see him, and it occurred to me that I should probably call [...]

A while ago I was at the Chicago Children’s Museum at Navy Pier, and I suppose I could start in right there. The “Children’s Museum” is no more a museum than Disneyland. It’s just a slightly more intellectually challenging diversion for children than Chuck E. Cheese’s, and calling it a “museum” is part of the [...]