Ethan

In honor of election day 2024 when millions of people struggled with basic math

If someone at a party says to you "It's crazy that the Catholic Church doesn't let women be priests" DO NOT try to argue the Church's position Your only response should be: "What's crazy is that any Christian denomination allows women priests at all" Catholics need to reframe how they see themselves. You don't have to defend the Church's position. The world should have to defend their position to you!

My 3 year old saw a kid dressed up like Pickle Rick and thought it was Larry the Cucumber

In my son's preschool class we had 3 Marvel characters, 1 werewolf, my son was Peter Pan, and 1 kid dressed up like Slimer from Ghostbusters (?) These kids are 3! You don't even know what America is how are you Captain America for Halloween

Patrick is right but parishes also need to make "being involved at the parish" not sound worse than drinking bleach

Every criticism from the Catholic left is just "they have more money than me therefore bad"

I used to have trouble understanding guys who said things like "turn your work into a game, see how fast you can get it done" I could never muster the energy and there didn't seem to be a point to it. Now I realize it is because I used to have far less actual work to get done.

The Catholicism subreddit has gone insane

Went to Target today just to get out of the house and while I was there some lesbians looked at me and laughed to each other (?) and the guy by the self checkout said “is that it boss?” when I only brought a 12 pack of Red Bull to the register

A sensitive young man writes in to ask us about an age gap relationship...

When I put my boys to bed they have the option between a "little blessing" and a "big blessing". The little blessing is normal. I put my hand on their head, pray over them, and trace the cross on their forehead. The big blessing is when I cover their face with my hand, pray the blessing, and trace the cross from the top of their head across their nose to their chin, then from one ear to the other across their eyes while they giggle uncontrollably. (They always choose the big blessing)

God in his infinite wisdom grants babies consciousness gradually. This is one of the beautiful mysteries of parenthood.

It became obvious to me about 18 months ago that if I wanted to have a big family I would need to pursue either 1. a job in tech (not feasible given my education and experience at my age) 2. real estate (been down that road once, maybe later once I have capital) 3. sales (i applied to many places but didn't find one that made sense for me) or 4. business ownership (doing now) I spent far too long in my 20s wallowing in a Catholic malaise hoping that someone would give me a cushy podcasting job. Now I'm 30 with 3 kids and there's no time to lose!