Category Archives: Jason

In Praise of CCD

Posted on May 20, 2012 by

This last Tuesday, our kids finished their first year of religious education classes at our parish church.  These are the classes that are popularly called “CCD” classes–although, at least in our parish, they’re now called PREP (Parish Religious Education Program) … Continue reading →

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Why Take Your Chances?

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

It is rare these days, at least in my experience, to meet a non-Catholic Christian who believes that doctrinal differences actually make a hill-of-beans worth of difference in whether a person ultimately makes it to Heaven.  Rather, in modern American … Continue reading →

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Hero Priest of the Titanic

Posted on April 14, 2012 by

It’s been a while since we’ve blogged (life’s been busy and full of quite a bit of sicknees in our family), and this is going to be a different kind of post.  As a long-time Titanic enthusiast, though, I couldn’t … Continue reading →

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So You Want To Be a Catholic?

Posted on March 7, 2012 by

Although WordPress lets us know how many folks visit our blog each day, it doesn’t let us know anything about our readers.  As a consequence, I have no way of knowing if this post—whose aim is to help people who … Continue reading →

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Is Any Among You Sick?

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

This last weekend, something new happened to me, although I’m guessing it’s happened in the past to at least a few readers:  I was admitted to the hospital for something other than elective surgery.  In my case, it was a … Continue reading →

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Heaven Here

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

I’ve written before about how our 12-year-old son Charles has blown me away with his intuitive grasp of some of the basic truths of Catholicism and with his natural openness to the Communion of Saints.  Today, I wanted to share … Continue reading →

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I Never Prayed that Everyone Would Be a Baptist

Posted on January 28, 2012 by

For readers who don’t know, January 18 through 25 was the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.  Recognizing this, at Mass last Sunday, we sang the following hymn of prayer to Our Lord: At that first Eucharist before You died, O … Continue reading →

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Pictures from the Front Lines

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

Our son and I are now home from today’s March for Life.  As with the last two years, it was a joy-filled, sorrowful day.  Mostly, as with the last two years, I was struck by the huge numbers of children, … Continue reading →

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Kids Are People Too

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

I remember well Whitney Houston singing on the radio when I was a kid, “I believe the children are our future; teach them well and let them lead the way.”  And I didn’t just hear this sentiment from pop culture.  … Continue reading →

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Rules Are Good

Posted on December 28, 2011 by

No artificial contraception–period.  No skipping Mass on Sundays or on Holy Days of Obligation, not even when you’re on vacation.  And when you go to Mass, you have to kneel a lot and use words like “consubstantial.”  To be sure … Continue reading →

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