Homeschooling moms and dads, if your son or daughter know that God loves them and they love Him, they are star students in the only class that matters.
Read More »The Creative Courage of Fatherhood As Taught by Saint Joseph
In this Year of St. Joseph, John Clark reminds us that as Saint Joseph’s fatherhood illustrates, when courage and creativity meet, worlds can be conquered.
Read More »St. Thomas More: Defender of Marriage and Fatherhood
When homeschool fathers need inspiration, ask for St. Thomas More’s help, to be like him, “God’s good servant”, offering love and sacrifice for our family.
Read More »We Always Had Christmas Lights
John Clark remembers a family tradition that grows brighter with time - how a father showed by example the importance of Christmas lights to his seven sons.
Read More »All That Matters – Bringing Our Children Closer to God
Around this time every year, John Clark opines, we parents must make educational decisions for our children, decisions to bring our children closer to God.
Read More »Divine & Human: How You Can Imitate God’s Paternity
Dom Alban Baker shares how imitating God in His love and forgiveness and by trusting the Father to have mercy that fathers excel in their providential role.
Read More »Is God Calling Married Men To The Priesthood?
by John Clark | Don’t mid-life crises usually involve buying a Corvette or Grecian Formula? Who has a mid-life crisis about the priesthood?
Read More »God’s Fatherhood as Role Model for Teaching
by Bl. Pope John Paul II | If it is true that by giving life parents share in God’s creative work, it is also true that by raising their children they become sharers in his paternal and at the same time maternal way of teaching. According to Saint Paul, God’s fatherhood is the primordial model of all fatherhood and motherhood in the universe (cf. Eph 3:14-15), and of human motherhood and fatherhood in particular.
Read More »The Importance of Fathers in our Search for God
These have been a tough couple of decades for fathers in particular, and men in general. [People] attack men’s identity and undermine the whole idea of fatherhood. In the process, women and children are hurt, families are damaged, and our understanding of God Himself becomes confused. Let me outline three criticisms, or problems, which make our times especially hard for fathers.
Read More »Growing Up and Growing Old: They Happen Too Quickly
Clichés tend to become clichés for their accuracy. “Life goes too fast” is one. A few weeks ago, a longtime family friend of ours visited us with her nine-month-old daughter.
Read More »Marriage, the Family, and Home Education
by Fr John Hardon | Home education means the teaching by the parents at home, by both parents. A father’s contribution to the home education of his children is indispensable.
Read More »Catholic Fatherhood: Dad, Love Your Wife
by Jim Shanley John Clark has completed a series of conversations about a Father’s vocation on Johnnette Benkovic’s EWTN show Women of Grace. The shows take an in-depth look at ...
Read More »The Mercy of Fatherhood
It often occurs that as a man gets older, he looks back on his life and worries about the sins of his past. As we grow spiritually closer to Jesus, ...
Read More »Mere Fatherhood
This monthly column is devoted to examining the role of the Catholic father, and how we fathers can better live our calling. Mostly, it has been about theory. This time, ...
Read More »The Father’s Role
As a home-schooling father of eight children, I have been asked to do a regular column on Catholic fatherhood in this newsletter, and specifically, Catholic fatherhood in the home schooling ...
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