Christmas Cheer: Do You Save It for the Season?
This morning, I sat watching this video from my friend Father Roderick Vonhögen of SQPN.com and pondering the current — undecorated — state of my home. Honestly, in most years my home would have been...
View ArticleHow Sweet It Is!
Let me introduce my friends here to one of the most precious joys of my life: my niece Elsa Beatrice. The first girl baby born to my family in her generation (after enough boys that we’d given up),...
View ArticleOur Own Versions of the Holy Family
First off, let me thank you for tolerating the week of silence here on A Good Measure. Like most of you, I took the past week off to celebrate Christmas with my family and am now dragging myself,...
View ArticleSurviving the High School Reunion — Share Your Advice
I don’t have much time to write this morning as I sit in my “Westin Hotel heavenly bed” with my little sister reading in the bed next to me. We’re having a “girls weekend”. The occasion: our high...
View ArticleHey Pope Francis, Thanks for the Synod!
Fresh news this morning that Pope Francis has called for Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, to be held in the Vatican from 5 to 19 October 2014, on the theme “The pastoral...
View ArticleRome: The Capital of the Family — What Will it Take?
New out this morning is a report on the upcoming Synod on the Family and other family related information from Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family: This...
View ArticleConsistory for the Family: Facing the Realities of “Family”
Coming from the Vatican today, we have an overview of the opening moments of this week’s extraordinary consistory for the family. The day began with an opening address from Pope Francis: Dear brothers,...
View Article“Irreplaceable” Looks at “Family” in Today’s World
Tomorrow night, in 700+ theaters around the country, the question “What is family?” will be addressed head on with a nationwide screening of the film “Irreplaceable”. I haven’t yet seen the full film,...
View ArticleOSV & Bunson Offer Excellent Extraordinary Synod “101″ Help
You’ve been hearing about it, and if you’re Catholic you really should pay attention to the upcoming extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family to be held in Rome from October 5-19. Why does it...
View ArticleBishop Tobin: “We’ve Got to Do Something”
I LOVE the type of transparency and openness which is at the heart of today’s article from Bishop Tobin of Providence. In the piece, he expresses his concerns openly and with empathy as he addresses...
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