Tag: Fatherhood
Family educators host movie night for fathers and sons
By Lucille Gravina
The thunder and lightning didn’t keep Dad’s away on Wednesday 30th August, 2023, as the Botany Randwick Family Educator Network hosted a...
Guy Zangari: St Joseph and my Nonno saw fatherhood as their...
Father’s Day is the time to pause, honour and reflect on the great men that have inspired and motivated us throughout our lives. When...
National Catholic Mens’ Gathering: A Time for Renewal Post Pandemic
As Australia starts to resume large scale public gatherings in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the organisers of the first in person National...
Inspirational Father: Danny Abdallah
By Judy Hanna
When St Brigid’s Catholic Primary School Marrickville were planning their Father’s Day event this month, they wanted a speaker who was inspirational,...
St Joseph: Model Father
By Francis Etheredge
It could be said that just as womanhood has been overshadowed by the problems of our time so Mary, the Mother of...
Star Wars’ fathers common thread
Since becoming part of the Disney brand, the last three live-action additions to the Star Wars Cinematic Universe share a common theme.
All three shows...
Fatherhood: Failure or Promise?
By Francis Etheredge
Ever since Adam failed to help Eve express the truth and reject the lies of the devil, men have often been found...
The need for fathers who listen and teach
The second assembly of the fifth Plenary Council of Australia has now begun. An historic moment for the Church in Australia, several years of...
Boys to Men: Initiation Done Right
I still remember the conversation on the beach that changed my whole approach to men’s initiation. I was on vacation with my extended family and talking with two of my brothers-in-law about our sons.
“Lord: Do you mean me? A father-catechist!”
My parents found it very difficult to pray with us and, in the end, abandoned it; however, they still prayed for their seven children and, I am certain, returning to the Catholic Faith at forty was a direct result of their prayers and the prayers of many other people.
Dads: provide for your kids by being present!
Greg Ellis, a Hollywood veteran best known for his turn in the Pirates of the Carribean series, likens the family court to a cartel: ...
Society loses when ‘dogs and cats take the place of children’:...
Denial of fatherhood and motherhood "diminishes us"
By Courtney Mares
Pope Francis said on Wednesday that it is a civilisational loss when dogs and cats replace...
