Saturday, July 23rd, 2011
When I graduated from a public high school 36 years ago (1975), no one in high school talked openly about homosexuality. There were some rumors about one of our teachers, but that was it. If there were any students who were homosexual, nobody knew about it because it was never discussed.…
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Tags: Defense of Marriage Act, Gay Marriage, Homesexuality, Public School System, Respect For Marriage Act, School Vouchers
Posted in Beliefs, Catholic Parenting, Chastity, Devout Catholics, Gay Marriage, Homosexuality, Marriage, Purity, School System, Sex, Sin | 3 Comments »
Saturday, February 19th, 2011
I’ve only been to one high school reunion since graduating in May of 1975. I never had the desire to attend one until I received a letter in 1995 inviting me to the 20 year reunion. After I received the invitation, I tracked down my best friend from high school. He was living in Chicago at the time, was married, and had two children. Like me, he had not gone to any of the previous…
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Tags: Behavior, Beliefs, Emotional Pain, High School, Personal Responsibility, Rejection, Suffering, Suicide
Posted in Beliefs, Catholic Boys, Catholic Girls, Catholic Parenting, Dating, Purity, Sex, Suffering, Teenagers | No Comments »
Saturday, October 16th, 2010
About 10 years ago I stopped by another attorney’s office to talk to him about a case we were working on together. After we were finished discussing the case, I asked him how his two sons were doing. He responded by telling me that he had recently caught his 18 year old son viewing pornography on the internet. I asked him how he handled the situation and he said he told his son it was…
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Tags: Catholic Boys, Catholic Families, Chastity, Christian Sexuality, Dating, Marriage, Playboy Magazine, Pornography, Purity, Sexual Revolution, Teenagers
Posted in Catholic Boys, Catholic Men, Catholic Parenting, Chastity, Dating, Family, Fatherhood, Marriage, Purity, Sex, Teenagers | 2 Comments »
Saturday, July 31st, 2010
For the past couple of month, articles have been popping up all over the place talking about the upcoming fourth season of the “award winning” television show,
Mad Men. The show has won numerous awards for its “historical authenticity” and “visual style,” including four Golden Globes and nine Emmys. I didn’t know this until recently, but apparently the marketing departments for shows like
Mad Men customarily send out, in advance, DVDs…
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Tags: Boston Legal, Chastity, Christian Sexuality, Dallas, Dynasty, Mad Men, Marriage, Purity, Soap Operas
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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
I have a rule that my teenage daughters are not allowed to download any songs from the Internet to play on their iPods until I’ve given my approval. Do you know what I call the wires that come out of an iPod and connect onto the small earphones that go into a teenager’s ears? Pipelines. Here’s what travels through those pipelines: (1) sewage that is pumped directly into our children’s brains (and imaginations) that will eventually…
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Tags: Bad Romance, Lady Gaga
Posted in Catholic Boys, Catholic Girls, Catholic Parenting, Celebrities, Family, Popular Culture, Purity, Teenagers | 1 Comment »
When I graduated from a public high school 36 years ago (1975), no one in high school talked openly about homosexuality. There were some rumors about one of our teachers, but that was it. If there were any students who were homosexual, nobody knew about it because it was never discussed.… Read More
I’ve only been to one high school reunion since graduating in May of 1975. I never had the desire to attend one until I received a letter in 1995 inviting me to the 20 year reunion. After I received the invitation, I tracked down my best friend from high school. He was living in Chicago at the time, was married, and had two children. Like me, he had not gone to any of the previous… Read More
About 10 years ago I stopped by another attorney’s office to talk to him about a case we were working on together. After we were finished discussing the case, I asked him how his two sons were doing. He responded by telling me that he had recently caught his 18 year old son viewing pornography on the internet. I asked him how he handled the situation and he said he told his son it was… Read More
