Episode 11: On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began with the Battle of Fort Sumter. For four long years that war raged, ultimately killing 655,000 Americans. We’re engaged in a new Civil War. We’re watching our Church and our country violently dissolve before our very eyes. Joe Sixpack—The Every Catholic Guy explains this dire…

National Suicide For the first time in American history there are more jobs than people to fill them. The Trump administration is downright giddy about the economy and its bright prospects for the future. They boast about there being more jobs than available workers. But I contend this is a bad thing. In this episode…

The Catholic Church & the State The Church asks for very little from the state. She only asks for religious liberty, which is an inalienable right, and that public servants execute their duties with diligence and honesty. That’s it. In fact, what the Catholic Church asks of the state is the very same thing that…

Until about five years ago, I’ve shared the faith with non-Catholics in order to help them find their way into the Church. I don’t do that anymore, though. It’s not because I no longer want to see people enter the Catholic Church. I still happily engage non-Catholics. I just don’t seek them out anymore. Instead,…

Going Against the Grain The vast majority of people in America—Catholics and non-Catholics alike—have bought in to the conventional wisdom on how to rear children and the proper role of the wife and mother. I’m going to go against the grain of that wisdom, so some people listening are going to get angry. If you’re…

Children & The Ideal Family Hillary Clinton infamously told us that it takes a village to rear a child. Baloney! What it takes to rear a child are committed and loving parents… especially fathers. And although children aren’t born with an instruction manual in their little hands, we still have an inerrant instruction manual at…

Husbands & Wives Main Topic: Scenario: Okay, you’re sitting in the family room watching your favorite team playing ball while slurping down a brewski. You’re kicked back relaxing, slouched down on the sofa with your feet rested on the coffee table. The stresses of your job are a thousand miles away, the kids are all…

Main Topic This episode is recorded right after the government shutdown of 2019 ended. The shutdown lasted 35 days, the longest in history. Most of the government workers who were furloughed had to borrow money to survive. That’s simply inexcusable, not because of the hardships brought on by the shutdown, but because these people should…

Main Topic: Do you know and understand your Catholic faith? Do you really know it? The reason I ask this question is because of an experience I had about five years ago. I’ve been a Catholic for thirty years, but I never joined the Knights of Columbus until five years ago. I was, and still…

Main Topic: As I write this, a battle is raging in America. Tump and most of the Right want to build a wall at our southern border. The Left doesn’t want the wall, and they claim any such wall would be immoral. But who’s right, from a Catholic perspective? As a body in the USCCB,…