A recipe for fathering?
One of the great parables of Luke’s Gospel is the Prodigal Son – the story of a child who wishes his father dead to get his inheritance, squanders the money, […]
My Family, My Faith: Posts
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Recapturing the vocation of Fatherhood (Part 2)
In my last column, I questioned why self-giving love has become so arbitrary in our national consciousness about Fatherhood. Of course in the Catholic imagination, reflection on the “vocation to […] -
Parenting teens
“The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of […] -
Baby hatches that save lives
Imagine pressing a button to alert staff that you have just dropped your newborn child into a “baby hatch”, and then walking away – for good. As the mother of […] -
Fathers: Teach your sons
Dr Timothy Hawkes, headmaster of The King’s School in Parramatta and a father of three, recently wrote about what fathers might teach their sons. The following is an edited extract. […]