Tag: Father’s Day

By Silvio Cuéllar, OSV News It was a summer afternoon along the Narragansett shoreline in New England. A young Ecuadorian immigrant had gone fishing with...

St. Joseph rightfully holds pride of place as the most significant fatherly saint in the Church's canon for his essential role as Jesus' foster...

"Trust me." If there's one comical mistake I've made over and over again as a father, it's saying those words to my children out loud. I...

Every 12 months or so, I'll remind my wife that I would like the recessional at my funeral to be "Holy God, We Praise...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Joe Herman, a longtime member of St. Mary, Star of the Sea Parish in Astoria, Oregon, was named after his grandfather,...

The church teaches that parents are the primary educators of the faith. I have to be honest: That made me uncomfortable. Yes, my parents took...

I expected fatherhood to change the routines of my life. Everyone told me it would. Goodbye, sleep. Hello, collapsing in exhaustion at 8 p.m. What...

We salute Christ's earthly guardian and a model for all fathers, as we present images of Saint Joseph from the churches of the Catholic...

People call me Father, but I don't have kids. And when folks call me Father, they sure as heck don't mean that I'm God....

"My son," says the Book of Proverbs, "do not despise the Lord's discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those...