I have written before about some of the challenges that face recent college graduates in the transition from school to the workforce. As the tedious parts
Simcha Fisher’s book, The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning, is still sitting pretty in the Top 10 on Amazon’s list of Catholic books. The
But when sex is divorced from love there is a feeling that one has been stopped at the vestibule of the castle of pleasure; that
Liturgy is a lot like parenting. No. Liturgy IS parenting. Jesus Christ is the groom and His Church the bride. Together they have done a
Children have minds of their own. They do their own thing and love to find ways to become their own person. This makes it difficult
When my fiancé and I were still just dating, we approached our priest and spiritual director and asked him how we might discern if we
Let’s talk about awkward for a minute. How about when your family is talking about the wedding someone just went to: the flowers, the ceremony,
Since Feb. 28, 2013 — the last day of Pope Benedict’s papacy — I’ve been harboring a secret. A secret I’m ready to share. I
By James Franke I’ve heard the argument a hundred times, phrased a hundred different ways. It all boils down to the same basic mentality: short
Last year, in the days before my wedding, I wrote about Deuteronomy 24:5: “When a man is newly wed, he shall not go out on a military
Recently my son and I were at the grocery store. He was wearing a Thomas the Tank Engine shirt and was playing with the cart as
One of the 14 part-time jobs I had while I was in college was as a messenger for a high-powered law firm in Minneapolis, MN.
Jesus Christ, the model par excellence of evangelization, turned over tables and called spiritual authorities “vipers”, but in regards to the world around Him he
Wait…you want me to be involved? This week was our parish’s Ministry Fair. They have been publicizing this fair for weeks. When we headed over
My wife woke up this morning earlier than normal and hugged me, real hard. Surprised and in a sleepy stupor, I hugged her back as
My short answer to this question is yes: I absolutely think it’s possible for a woman to pursue a man, in a real, genuine way
3 Lessons and 2 Tips is a series of interviews on my blog in which some of my favorite people (and probably some of yours)
Sometimes I wonder how much of my life I will spend folding laundry. I tend to get particularly perturbed at the pile of apparel when
Planning a wedding is a lot of pressure. Everyone you know is invited, it’s (hopefully) a once-in-a-lifetime event and it’s the most formal occasion of
“Chesterton described the sentimentalist as having ‘no honor about ideas; he will not see that one must pay for an idea as for anything else.
My husband married a woman who had the ability to laugh things off, to be spontaneous, to work hard and get ‘er done. And then
