I recently served on A discussion panel where Catholic business leaders explored the degree of compatibility between faith and business practices, including corporate charitable giving. A distinct mix…


Looking Back, Looking Ahead

September 1, 2018

Summertime memories…Climbing unsteadily at the beach onto my dad’s rocklike shoulders and getting launched wide-eyed into the next big wave. Gulping through dinner to have another catch in…


Father’s Day 2018

June 12, 2018

Another Father’s Day. Another opportunity to reflect on the national crisis of fatherlessness and the fallout we see all around us because too many kids go through life…


A Mother’s Day Reflection on Teamwork A fatherhood post just before Mother’s Day? Calendar malfunction? Gender confusion? Hardly. All around us are the commercial trappings of Mother’s Day:…


2018: Our Primary Task

February 28, 2018

The great anthropologist Margaret Meade once said: “The primary task of every civilization is to teach their young men to be fathers.” Pretty heady stuff. And how is…