Category: Fatherhood
June 3, 2026
Boys Forever? Reclaiming Confidence Amidst a Directionless Masculinity
Many men today feel stuck, immature, and directionless. The crisis of masculinity is ultimately spiritual, rooted in a loss of faith, conviction, hope, and confidence in God.... READ MORE
May 11, 2026
From Sloth to Strength: Build a Morning Routine That Transforms Your Life
A man’s life is built in the morning. Learn how to overcome laziness, restore discipline, and structure your day around God with a powerful morning routine that changes everything.... READ MORE
May 4, 2026
The One Thing That Displeases God—Even More Than Sin Itself?
A powerful reflection on how our lack of trust in God the Father—revealed through worry and fear—may displease Him more than sin itself, and how to grow in true sonship.... READ MORE
April 27, 2026
Why God Doesn’t Call You to Be Great
This article exposes the lie of worldly greatness and reveals how God’s glory is revealed.... READ MORE
April 20, 2026
10 Daily Habits of Holy Catholic Men—According to the Saints
A practical, saint-tested plan for Catholic men: 10 daily habits that cultivate discipline, virtue, and deep union with God.... READ MORE
March 2, 2026
Fatherhood Legacy: The Blessing or Curse a Man Leaves
Every man leaves a legacy. This reflection confronts the question: will your fatherhood legacy become a blessing or a curse for your children, your lineage, and God’s Kingdom?
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October 9, 2025
3 Ways to Reach Your Daughter
One famous podcaster’s wife said to him, “You are never here.” To which he responded, “I’m at home all the time!” To which she retorted, “Yes, you are here, you are in the pictures, but you are always somewhere else.”
Many bricks build a house, and many mini failures to be present to our daughters create a fissure that—later in life—is difficult to build a bridge over.... READ MORE
August 5, 2025
The Deplorable F-Word
During his homily, he mentioned that a woman said to him, “Father, I will never call God ‘Father’. My father sexually abused me. I can never call God father.”... READ MORE
June 11, 2025
Your Noble Duty, Divine Purpose, and Call to Glory: Show Us the Father
Imagine that you and your family are dwelling in a war-torn land, amidst continual gunfire, the sporadic explosion of bombs, and military violence. Your wife and children are constantly in harm’s way. Your neighborhood is a battleground...
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May 20, 2025
The Four Marks of a Father Who Leads His Family Well
...To effectively embrace each of these essential pillars it is imperative that we understand our charitable authority.
If there is none to lead, none will follow.
If you do not lead your family from evil, evil will lead your family.
However, the culture, ideologues and many governmental programs are hostile to and oppose this God-ordained and proclaimed truth....... READ MORE
April 23, 2025
Fathered by the Phone
A recent United Kingdom study titled, Lost Boys: What’s happening to Young Men in Britain, offered an unsettling insight: “boys are now more likely to have a smartphone than live with their dad.”
The study revealed that 2.5 million British children live without a father at home—that’s 1 in 5 kids. The situation is similar in the U.S.
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March 10, 2025
Why Children Don’t Need Perfect Fathers—but Present Ones
We want our children to know God…to love God.
But how can they know and love a God that they cannot see, hear or feel?
The answer to this question seems beyond us.
But what if there is someone on earth who could transmit the face of the Father that they cannot see, the voice of the Father that they cannot hear, the touch of the Father that they cannot feel?
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March 3, 2025
You Are Like God…
Have you ever sensed that you are called to something more, to accomplish something, or to be someone great?
Have you ever thought that you have an essential mission that, if fulfilled, will greatly impact humanity?
The authentic version of that desire and call to greatness is divinely inspired.
It is God’s voice calling you to be like Him...... READ MORE
February 10, 2025
Why God Chose Fatherhood as a Path to Holiness
It is difficult enough to be compared to another human being, but it’s another thing entirely to be compared to the perfect, all-knowing, all-loving, all-giving, all-powerful God. And yet, Jesus audaciously challenges us and even desires us to make this comparison...... READ MORE
February 3, 2025
Love Your Kid! Your Child’s Future Depends On It
...Even St. Joseph himself lost sight of the twelve-year-old Jesus momentarily, leaving Him behind in Jerusalem, as he and Mary began their trek home after the feast of the Passover. However, after realizing that his gaze upon Jesus was disrupted...... READ MORE
January 27, 2025
The Gaze We Desire
Have you ever met someone who avoids looking you in the eyes?
He looks around you, but not into you?
Have you ever struggled to make or retain eye contact with someone?
Why do people avoid the gaze of another?
The simple answer is that we are all afraid—afraid that the other may see something in us that we don’t want them to see; or perhaps on a deeper level, we are fearful that they won’t see something in us that is desirable...... READ MORE
January 17, 2025
The Most Important Man
Have you ever considered who the world’s most important man is?
There are hosts of men who are marked by the character and attributes of power, influence, and popularity. Presidents of nations, popes, founders of megachurches, software developers, authors, philanthropists, investors, entrepreneurs, scientists, professors, professional athletes, actors, and inventors are commonly considered candidates who might qualify to meet this noble description...... READ MORE
October 8, 2024
How The Monsters Will Take Over the World
My wife and I took our grandchildren to Empire Park.
A vast wooden citadel comprised of monkey bars, tire bridges, swaying steps, and towers.
Bash and Goose, my two grandsons, implored me to enter into the wooden kingdom and “adventure” with them.
As Bash, Goose and I ran amuck like wild men something weird transpired...
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July 19, 2024
My Daughter Taught Me This About Women
Last Fall, my daughter Gabrielle married Anthony.
According to custom, the reception included the Daddy-Daughter Dance.
Gabrielle’s beauty was pure, arresting, stunning (and she wasn’t wearing an ounce of make-up).
I had given her away.
And yet, she was mine, for one final moment, for one last dance.... READ MORE
July 9, 2024
One Huge Reason Dads Fail
A man’s core need is to be respected.
Young boys respect their dads immensely.
Boys grow up wanting to be respected by the man they respect the most—dad.
The boy craves his father’s attention and approval.
If a boy is not approved by dad, he becomes a man who starves for respect...... READ MORE
April 19, 2024
I Need You to Come Home and…
Conviction births conversion.
Often, to do the right thing we must be convinced that we are doing it the wrong way.
I had just turned thirty.
My wife Kim was 28-weeks pregnant with our third daughter.
Suddenly she went into labor.
By means of an emergency C-section, our O.B. saved our daughter, Anna Marie’s life...
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April 18, 2024
Two Things That Make a Dad Like God
Striving for virtue, our fallen nature tends toward either deficient or excessive behavior (St. Thomas Aquinas).
Regarding food: we starve ourselves (deficiency), or binge (excessiveness).
Regarding sex: we deem the act as perverse (deficient) or we indulge immorally (excessive).
Regarding fatherhood...
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February 10, 2024
Can a Father Be the Greatest in the Kingdom of God?
As I committed myself to embrace the summons to “Go home and be like St. Joseph,”
I was assailed by the continual temptation to believe that being married, having sexual intercourse,
having children, working for lucre, hindered, if not disqualified me from achieving great sanctity.
Sainthood, holiness appeared to be an impossible ideal.... READ MORE
February 9, 2024
My Vocation: The Path to Glorification
I did not want the hidden life of a husband and father.
I confessed to a Dominican Friar my ardent desire to do more, to be more, to have a noble purpose—to do and be something great.
After a lengthy pause, he uttered a phrase that like lightning and sword struck and pierced my soul:
“You will become a saint by means of your vocation—not outside of it.”
The prophetic utterance shook me.... READ MORE