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“Dad’s Not Catholic. So Why Should I Be?”
I surprised our son one day. He was preparing for his Confirmation, and I felt it was important to have a…
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Free Will: Candy has Consequences
For years, I guarded the kids’ Easter baskets like the soldiers outside of Christ’s tomb. I’d monitor them vigilantly –…
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How to be a Good Sinner
Today two ideas collided. It didn’t hurt so much, but it did shake things up. Shaking up can be a…
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The Prom Dress
Having a large family brings many blessings. One that might surprise some people is the blessing of not having enough…
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Degrading Cycle Targets Girls
The crime alone was heinous enough. According to police in Cleveland, Texas, an 11-year-old girl there was gang raped six…
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What’s a Baby Cost?
When my wife and I found out we were having our first baby, I was ecstatic. The coming of the…
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Ugly Girls
For the second time in a week I have run into the ugliest girls I ever met. I’m not being…
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Valley of the Mismatched
Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” I can only add: “Especially when it…
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Who Does It Hurt?
Our then 4-year-old daughter decided that she’d had enough. We’d heard the complaints about a small group of boys in…
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Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
We and our 4 daughters, ages 13 down to 1, needed a home, and we needed it soon. Our 6-month…