The Catholic Gentleman's Guide
Your guide to manly holiness.
Chances are that you’re like many men who struggle to find time to add spiritual content to their lives outside of Sunday Mass. We know we should make the time, but we don’t or can’t. Worry not, for all’s not lost. One of the most convenient ways to nourish our spiritual lives out on the road … Read more
Dear Dad, How can I begin to express how grateful I am for everything you’ve been for me? Thanks to you, I am not among the one-third of all children who are raised in a home absent of my biological father. For some providential reason I was born to you, a caring and selfless father who … Read more
This is a re-published interview by Canadian Catholic apologist, Matt Nelson from ReasonableCatholic.com. This interview poses a few questions on my own upbringing and Catholic formation, as well as my perspective on apologetics within the home. ReasonableCatholic.com is a highly recommended resource for your personal formation in apologetics. I’ve been looking forward to doing this interview for a … Read more
GOING HOME TO GOD, AND BEATIFICATION As they aged, Luigi and Maria devoted even more time to prayer and contemplation within their home, becoming an example of piety to all who knew them. In 1951, he, Maria and the inseparable Enrichetta spent a last, beautiful day together in the mountains, shortly after which Luigi died … Read more
LIVING “FROM THE ROOF UP” In her moving work Radiography of a Marriage (1952), Maria wrote: “Since the birth of our first son, we began dedicating ourselves to the children, forgetting ourselves…. In order to love our children more, we tried to better ourselves by correcting our shortcomings and improving our characters…. We both felt … Read more