"When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, but we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then." - Cat's in the Cradle, song by Harry Chapin

I recently learned my liver cancer had gotten more aggressive.

When speaking of differences between men and women, we must speak in general terms, because man and woman are more alike than unlike, and though they may strive to reach the true home of the soul by separate ways, yet the home is ultimately the same.

There is perhaps no greater intimacy possible between men than when a son looks to a father from whom he has learned to be a father himself.

Giving birth is the natural complement and continuation of the marital act.

"The inexpressible sadness which emanates from great cities," says Gabriel Marcel in Homo Viator (1952), "a dismal sadness which belongs to everything that is devitalized, everything that represents a self-betrayal of life, appears to me to be bound up in the most intimate fashion with the decay of the family."

For those who have eyes to see, this is part of the medical art. 

We can help kids understand why it is meaningful to save sex for true love.

"I take this to Mommy." - A little boy in the woods.