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St. Monica – Children and Grandchildren

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BVM, St. Joseph, St. Monica and St. Jude Thaddeus, help arrange Divine Appointments to have all of our grandchildren baptized and to bring our children and grandchildren, siblings, nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and all their significant others back to the Church and to prayer. Related PostsCan tattoos be sacramentals? Demographic Decline = Fiscal Crisis More … Read more

My suffering, united to Your own

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That my suffering, united to Your own, will bear fruit in this life and the next, Jesus I trust in You! I offer up all my pain and suffering for our children and grandchildren. Related PostsListen to Hear God Speaking to You The Coming Fake Liberal Religion Boom The Integralists, the Deep State, and Raisins … Read more

Abigail Shrier: Stop Obsessing Over Our Children’s Happiness

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The author of Bad Therapy argues that we have created a generation of “emotional hypochondriacs.” Abigail Shrier is author of the best-selling new book Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up. She argues that the mental health of Gen Z—people born between 1997 and 2012—is a mess because an infantilizing therapeutic culture pervades every … Read more

Dear Lord, please have mercy on and bless ,,,

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Dear Lord, please have mercy on and bless us and our children, our grandchildren, our siblings, nieces, nephews, cousins, friends, neighbors and all their significant others, we ask for them and for us the graces of faith, hope, love, joy, mercy and forgiveness, gratitude, charity, chastity, compassion, conversion, trust and belief, final perseverance, and a … Read more

We Wanted the Best for Our Children, But Made a Mistake

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An article about to be published in the Journal of Pediatrics is titled, “Decline in Independent Activity as a Cause of Decline in Children’s Mental Wellbeing: Summary of the Evidence.” The authors are three big names in child development: Anthropologist David Lancy, psychologist David Bjorklund and Peter Gray, a professor in the Dept. of Psychology … Read more

As Pop Culture Lures Kids Toward The Occult, Neutrality Toward Witchcraft Isn’t Enough

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We should help young people experience how the promises God offers them far surpass the false promises of witchcraft and ungodly spirits. In a recent New York Times editorial, Ross Douthat called into question the naive, materialist readings of the new statue of a female pagan deity that was installed outside the New York courthouse. … Read more

Here’s the kind of compassion everyone should show the gender movement

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You guys, take notes, cuz this is how you do it. This is how you treat a member of your family when they enter the gender cult: Gender Nonconforming girl CRIES because her grandma won’t call her Mike as she requested The grandma is super nice about it, writes a personal card, and says she’s … Read more

There Is No Painless Way to Balance the Budget

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‘Taxing the rich’ and cutting ‘woke’ programs won’t come close to getting the job done. You cannot balance the budget just by cutting programs that you don’t like. You cannot balance the budget by booting layabouts off welfare, by reducing “waste, fraud, and abuse,” by eliminating foreign aid, or by repealing the grievously misnamed Affordable … Read more

Today’s Churches Increasingly Anti-Family

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When it comes to the problem of children crying at Mass, Catholics have a saying: “If it ain’t crying, it’s dying.” For those who think that there are too many children at church, they should consider the opposite problem: an aging congregation on the brink of death. While the prospect of an elderly church without … Read more

Is grandparenting good for you? Maybe not, says new research.

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The budget airline AirTran used to air a funny commercial about a couple of grandparents visiting their progeny shortly after the birth of their grandchildren. The grandparents were expecting a week together with the whole family. Instead they were handed the babies at the door, while the new parents jumped into a taxi and headed … Read more

What We Lost

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After their wedding trip to Havana in January 1953, my parents moved into a small apartment perched high in the rafters of the Newark three-family house owned by my grandparents. Mom’s sister lived on the first floor, and Grampa and Gramma squeezed in the middle. This arrangement lasted for several years, through the birth of … Read more

The Grandfather’s Vocation

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“Bridge” is a clue to what I take to be my vocation as a grandfather. We all know the joke: Grandparents take revenge on their kids by spoiling their grandkids, then handing the toxic little monsters back to their parents to deal with the fallout. I don’t accept it, and not just because I’m not … Read more

What I believe now, part 1: grandparenting

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It is a conservative’s nature to believe that society has gone off the rails. I believe that we have gone off the rails by having lost sight of the importance of children and grandchildren. I predict that many people today between the ages of 25 and 40 will find themselves becoming lonely and depressed by … Read more