Category Archives: Jason

Our Journey Home Appearance – February 10 on EWTN

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Jason

We are excited, and honored, to be scheduled to appear on The Journey Home at 8 ET, Monday, February 10, on EWTN.  We watched A LOT of The Journey Home as we traveled our road to Rome, and it was … Continue reading →

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March for Life – 2014

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Jason

This year, the kids and I again made our annual pilgrimage to downtown DC to participate in the March for Life, and Nikki held down the fort with the young ones who couldn’t go out in the 15 degree weather.  … Continue reading →

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GYPSY Religion

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Jason

A couple of months back, the article Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy got a lot of attention, as I believe it rang true for bunches of folks.  The thesis of the article is that the expectations of young adults entering … Continue reading →

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“Can We Talk…and Talk and Talk and Talk?”: Satan’s Code Words – Part 2

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Jason

In my last post, I discussed how Satan uses the words “assurance” and “security” to trick people into believing that God intended us to have 100% certainty about where we’ll spend eternity, and I argued that viewing Heaven as something … Continue reading →

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Satan’s Code Words – Part 1

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Jason

Ever since—well, ever since “the beginning”—Satan has been the consummate master of the half-truth, twisting God’s words for his own devices.  Go back and read the story of the Fall in Genesis 3, and you’ll see what I mean.  Satan … Continue reading →

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In Praise of CCD

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Jason

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 Jason

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 Jason

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 Jason

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 Jason

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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