Raising three sons has helped me appreciate the masculine virtues.

There is a wonderful letter in which St. John Bosco advised his priests to avoid anger in their dealings with the foster children they cared for.

The four principal ends of the Mass are also the four most important things to teach our children and ourselves.

A new guidebook reaffirms boyhood in all of its politically incorrect glory.

The real evil of materialism is not the pursuit of things. It is, rather, seeing and treating other people as things and therefore putting things ahead of people.

Sometimes negative guidelines are at least as helpful as positive ones, often more so. It's often useful for a father to know what not to do that is, what to avoid in a complicated family situation.

Parenting is arguably the hardest job there is and the one for which we get no training. Here are ten principles of parenting that can guide us in the demanding work of raising children of character.

Most every person lies at some point in their life, but Scripture, St. Augustine and others note the damage done by telling untruths.

Holding hands, sharing an embrace or a kiss these can be innocent expressions of love. But without great vigilance and virtue, these outward expressions can easily become a form of utilitarianism that actually ends up driving two people farther apart from each other and preventing love from fully developing.

The battle for purity is ultimately fought deep in the recesses of the human heart.