Brendan Cordial

Concur. You would be a powerful voice advocating for the two most important ways that a wife could do this: 1. Understand and accept the the father will father in a much different way than you will mother. He is likely to be more adventurous, push different boundaries, but black/white in things than the mom would be. 2. Be EXTREMELY cautious to be anything other than respectful and loyal towards your husband in front of your children. If life/limb are in danger, call him an idiot and save the children. For anything less serious, you have to be publicly united in front of the kids/relatives. Nothing will destroy a man’s motivation more than a disrespectful/demeaning wife overly criticizing a father. Call him an idiot behind closed doors and come up with a mutually acceptable solution for whatever the issue is.

Good fathers change lives. Fathers help children feel safe, loved, confident, and capable. They teach responsibility, resilience, sacrifice, and how to build healthy relationships. Their presence gives children stability and hope for their own future families. Children with involved fathers are: — About twice as likely to go to college
— 80% less likely to spend time in jail
— 75% less likely to experience teen pregnancy
— More likely to have healthy self-esteem, emotional stability, and strong social skills Strong fathers help build strong families.Strong families help build a healthy society. We need a culture that celebrates faithful, loving, present fathers again ❤️

@FeserEdward @DavidBCohen1 What is the counter example? Ought we have atom bombed Tokyo? Ought we have subjected Japan to a conventional invasion, which may have brought about greater, more prolonged suffering? Ought we have sought a negotiated peace?

@DavidBCohen1 I was referring there to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, you dolt, which did involve intentionally killing civilians. Does everyone on this lunatic site respond only to fantasized opponents?

Of all the things I’ve said in defense of unpopular Catholic moral teachings over the years – on abortion, sexuality, social doctrine, or what have you – I don’t think anything has generated more undiluted hostility and unreasoning, spittle-flecked rage than what I’ve said against intentionally killing civilians and obliterating civilian infrastructure during wartime. It is truly extraordinary. I never would have guessed it. Make of it what you will.

Where is the line between operational "necessity" and collateral damage? As weaker conventional militaries purposefully place their civilians in harm's way, what is the proper action? Perhaps, if you accept that war is a terrible, but unavoidable, reality - there is more nuance here than in other controversial issues.

@NDjsmall @NDLoyal Indeed, Go Irish!

She has no choice… @NDLoyal

@Arma__Christi Appreciate the witness! Let's go!

Been busier than usual now that I’m working two jobs but never to busy to say my rosary. I’ll be as active as I have been these past weeks, barely lol 😂 pray for me as I’m praying for y’all

@RetroMoviesDB Are you serious? LoTR and it’s not even remotely close.

Ok folks. Which is the Greatest Trilogy of all time!

@PeterBrumbaugh @Adam_Dowling1 I am nourished by your hate.

@Adam_Dowling1 No, we just want you to join a conference so you get the same treatment as everybody else! Everybody else has joined a conference ND can no longer custom design its schedule to make the playoff ! It not fair. The “Independent” era is over. You need to choose/ join a conference

What the college football world wants Notre Dame’s schedule to be Clemson Miami Texas Alabama Ohio state Michigan Penn State LSU Texas A/M Georgia Navy USC

@Adam_Dowling1 @MikeGoolsby41 ND 12-0 against that easy. Not even close.

@tsnmike @NDFootball @theACC lol

With all that’s happened involving @NDFootball and @theACC lately, is it time for the league to give the Irish an ultimatum? I know what I’d say: sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-footba…

@rossiadam And we’ve homeschooled our children with co-op as well. Our three oldest boys are in Catholic school now.

I have some friends that homeschool their kids and the results are pretty shocking. Their kids score off the charts. And they're only putting 3 or 4 hours a day into whatever they're doing at home. I didn't homeschool my kids, so I don't know exactly what they're doing. But anecdotally something is working really well. Once a fringe movement of just 13,000 families in the 1970s, there are now well over 3 million homeschooled kids in the US today, estimates suggest. Back when I was in school, it felt like a prison. I would sit in a classroom in rural Virginia with kids that were held back, going at the speed of the slowest kid. learning about topics I don't care about. I know it sounds hippie-dippy, but I just wish there was some way for kids to pursue their interests. I had this bizarre report card where I'd have an A in chemistry, science, math, and then a D in everything else. I just wasn't participating in topics I didn’t find interesting. I get the teacher's side. You have to run a classroom through a a curriculum that's been handed to you. Every kid can't be doing their own thing. But then I see my homeschooling friends getting great results with 3 hours a day because their kids are working on what they're actually curious about. Compare that to eight hours of kids in class and then the amount of homework a lot of these kids have (especially here in Northern Virginia where we're in a very competitive system). It's way too much. College admissions has turned into an arms race. Kids are competing against students from around the world for admission to their state school. A lot of people don't realize college admissions are based partly on where you're from geographically. If you're from Fairfax County they say, well, we have 100 other kids from Fairfax County. Where do you rank? You're number 75? Too bad. But if you're from South Dakota? You might be one of a handful of applicants from that state. Colleges want to say "we have students from all 50 states," which is basically auto-admission And kids and parents know this. They're hiring college admissions coaches and tutors. There's this pressure cooker environment. They need 4.0+ GPAs, a laundry list of extracurriculars, charitable endeavors, a perfect essay. And colleges use their rising costs to justify admitting more international students who pay double tuition. I don't know how to reform the system. But when I see homeschooling friends getting these results with three hours a day, I want to know what that is.

@rossiadam I spent most of my time in public school either reading on my own or bs’ing with friends. When you take a step back, most of the school day is spent NOT doing school.

@CatholicPods This is encouraging. Thank you for sharing.

Someone emailed me the "Parish Pastoral Plan" of his parish in Ohio. On the parish's official list of "Matters of Pastoral Concern", number 7 was "Universalism - the belief that all or most people will be saved" (as in, it is bad that this belief is widespread). Impressive.

@GamewithDave World of Warcraft and not even close.

Play a single video game for a year 12 hours a day to get $10M. What game are you playing?

@AuthorGFAllen Yes, Patrick O’Brian of Aubrey Maturin fame.

Have you ever finished a book and immediately thought, “Yep, I need to read everything this author has ever written”?

@GameStalgiaX I very much enjoyed Phantasy Star Online.

Favorite memory of the Sega Dreamcast?

@acrimonyand USS Constellation

Still think we need an enormous, I mean ridiculously insane battleship, biggest guns ever built by any navy ever, just to serve as our flagship and as a crazy flex because we are the premier naval power in world history. What should we name it

@BCrawford247 Yes, hate more. Notre Dame does have a money printing machine. Irish love green.

Dabo Swinney says Clemson is used to punching above its weight class and wins despite a lack of resources. 'Notre Dame makes its own rules, prints its own money.'

@VinnysCorner1 ND vs OSU 2023.

Name a loss that made you sit in silence for 30 minutes after the game

@CptAncapistan This was indeed a very good game.

This is the greatest piece of Star Wars media ever produced. I will not be taking counter-arguments at this time.

@lady_valor_07 726-5002. Other one was 982-0980.