Vincent Cavanagh

Artist Illustrator, Creative Writer, Reader, Catholic, Movie Buff, Classic British Comedy, History of Ideas

[Vincent Cavanagh @VJCavanagh]

Website link: https://t.co/6FSRZYj1kI

[Vincent Cavanagh @VJCavanagh]

2026 Q1 Blog Digest has just been posted to my website.
Link in comment.

[Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC @FrMatthewLC]

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[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

I retired my wife 23 years ago so she could stay home with our kids.

Biggest mistake I ever made.

Not because it was wrong. Because I didn’t understand that “building a family” actually meant poverty, food banks, and pawnshops.

Nobody tells you that part.

We dreamed of a large family. We got it. Five kids. She was pregnant for 8 years of our marriage.

And we learned the hard way that the saying is true: poverty comes in the front door, love goes out the window.

There were nights we wanted to kill each other.

Not metaphorically. Actually wanted to walk away and never come back.

Because “traditional family” sounds beautiful until you’re at the food bank for the third time that month and your wife is crying because she can’t remember the last time she bought something for herself that wasn’t from Goodwill.

This isn’t the Instagram version. This is the version where you pawn your wedding ring to make rent.

I regret not understanding what I was asking her to sacrifice. I thought “staying home with the kids” meant she got to avoid the workforce grind.

What it actually meant: She became nurse, teacher, cook, referee, therapist, and janitor while I got to leave the house every day and talk to adults.

I got performance reviews and raises. She got fingerprint smudges on the walls and no appreciation until I learned to give it.

But here’s why I’d make the same choice again:

Because we were building something together. That’s what kept us on the job site when we wanted to kill each other.

Not a career. Not a bank account. A family.

And our kids don’t remember the food bank visits. They remember Mom was there.

Every. Single. Day.

Not daycare. Not babysitters. Not whatever “village” the world says it takes.

Mom.

The world tells women staying home is “wasting potential.” The same world that says quarterly earnings matter more than raising humans who know they’re loved.

That’s not empowerment. That’s demonic.

Because here’s what 23 years taught me: Titus 2 and Proverbs 31 aren’t suggestions for people with money. They’re blueprints for people willing to be poor for something that matters.

You want to know the real cost of “retiring your wife”?

Ramen for dinner. Beater cars. Saying no to every vacation. Watching your friends upgrade their lives while you’re upgrading your grocery budget from $100 to $150 a week and calling it progress.

It’s your wife crying at 2 AM because she hasn’t slept in 6 days and you can’t fix it.

It’s realizing “provider” doesn’t mean you’re a hero. It means you carry weight you can’t put down.

It’s both of you sacrificing everything comfortable so your kids get something most kids don’t get anymore: a mother who’s actually present.

Men: If you can’t handle being the sole provider, don’t ask your wife to stay home.

This isn’t about control or traditional aesthetics. This is about sacrifice. You sacrifice financial freedom. She sacrifices career identity. Both of you sacrifice comfort for something bigger.

That’s the deal. And it costs everything.

I regret not preparing better. Not understanding sooner. Not appreciating what she was giving up while I got to leave the house and be “the provider.”

But I don’t regret the choice.

Because 23 years later, our kids know they were wanted. They know Mom chose them over everything else the world offered.

And when they’re raising their own kids, they’ll remember that love isn’t a feeling - it’s a decision you make every day for 23 years even when you’re broke and exhausted and ready to quit.

Modern feminism says career fulfillment matters more than family. Christianity says both matter, but only one is eternal.

We chose eternal. And we’d do it again.

Even through the food banks and pawnshops and nights we wanted to kill each other.

Because building something that lasts requires builders who stay on the job site.

Follow @biblicalman for more truth about what it actually costs to live countercultural.

Not theory. Scars.

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

After Mom died, I asked dad if he wanted to move into the rectory with me, and he agreed.
His first night in the rectory, the emergency line rang at 2:30 AM.
I jumped out of bed and threw my Cassock on and opened my bedroom door to find dad standing there with his rosary and iPad in hand.
He has joined me for every hospice, hospital, and death call since he moved in with me.
He stays in the car and prays his rosary, and if I take too long, he plays sudoku.
This is the man I was blessed to grow up with, a man he has spent 89 years becoming.
This is the man I model my life after.
Fidelity, service, strength under control, sacrifice…all of that and more.
Happy birthday dad.
I love you so very much.

[Fr. Goyo @FrGoyo]

Dear Guardian Angel,
I just wanted to say, “sorry for what I put you through sometimes😬 and thanks for not giving up on me.”

My mom used to tell me every morning, “please don’t embarrass your Guardian Angel today.”

It helped me reconsider many actions 😇

#GuardianAngels

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

Pope Leo XIV: "After this Jubilee, the 'pilgrimage of hope' of young people continues and will take us to Asia! I renew the invitation that Pope Francis extended in Lisbon two years ago. Young people from all over the world will gather together with the Successor of Peter to celebrate World Youth Day in Seoul, Korea, from 3 to 8 August 2027. The theme will be 'Take courage! I have overcome the world!' (Jn 16:33). It is precisely the hope that dwells in our hearts that gives us the strength to proclaim the victory of the risen Christ over evil and death; and you, young pilgrims of hope, will be witnesses of this to the ends of the earth! I look forward to seeing you in Seoul: let us continue to dream together and to hope together."
See you in Seoul, Holy Father!

[Vincent Cavanagh @VJCavanagh]

@christasyd Got it in one! 🥇💯

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

At Solemn Mass this morning in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome, white rose petals fell from the ceiling of the Basilica during the Gloria, commemorating the miraculous snowfall of August 5, 358 at this very site, the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica.

[Romy🦢 @romytweeting]

The Vatican set up 200 tents in a Roman arena where Christians were once persecuted

Thousands of young people from all over the 🌎lined up for hours.
Not for a concert
Not for a protest

But for confession.
For forgiveness
For mercy
For freedom

This is the beauty of Catholicism

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

Tor Vergata 25 years apart. From St. John Paul II to Pope Leo XIV, the Catholic Church is very much alive and full of hope.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

What is the true meaning of life? What can free us from being trapped in meaninglessness, boredom and mediocrity? The fullness of our existence does not depend on what we store up or what we possess. Rather, fullness has to do with what we joyfully welcome and share. #JubileeOfYouth

[Fr. Goyo @FrGoyo]

1 MILLION young people chose to pray IN SILENT on a Saturday night. When in search of happiness, look no further than Jesus Christ.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Some of these photographs of Pope Leo XIV are majestic

[Father V @father_rmv]

Pope Leo XIV's coat of arms consists of a shield divided into two sectors, each carrying a profound message.

On the left side, against a blue background, there is a stylized white lily, a traditional symbol of purity and innocence.

This flower, often associated with the Virgin Mary, immediately evokes the Marian dimension of the Pope’s spirituality.

This is not a purely devotional call, but a precise indication of the centrality that the Blessed Virgin Mary occupies in the way of the Church: a model of listening, humility, and total surrender to God.

On the right side of the shield, on a white background, is represented the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pierced by an arrow and lying on a closed book.

This image, intense and full of meaning, refers to the mystery of Christ's redeeming sacrifice, a heart bruised by love for humanity, but also to the Word of God, represented by the closed book.

This closed book suggests that divine truth is sometimes veiled and must be received and pursued with the light of faith.

It's an invitation to trust and abandonment, to persevere in the pursuit of the Gospel’s deep meaning, even in moments of darkness.

The motto chosen by Pope Leo XIV, "In Illo uno unum" is taken from a commentary by Saint Augustine on Psalm 127, summarizes the core of his message: “In Him who is One, we are one. ”

These words reflect a Church, united in mind and heart by profession of the same one true Faith, despite the differences and tensions that inevitably permeate it in its human dimension.

It is an expression of communion founded and encountered in Christ's love, which makes brotherhood and reconciliation possible even in the most complex contexts.

It is not by accident that, in his greeting to the Church and the world, Pope Leo XIV spoke of precisely this: of a Church as a bridge, called to overcome divisions, to make space for meeting, listening and mercy.

Ultimately, through his coat of arms and motto, the new Pontiff proposes a vision of a missionary and Marian Church, deeply rooted in the love of Jesus Christ and faithful to the Gospel.

A Church willing to suffer and commit itself entirely to the service of God's people, aware that only in unity with the Lord can all diversity find harmony.

[Fr. Paddy @frpaddybyrne]

Pope Leo, visiting the tomb of Francis. Good Shepherds, for the Lord.

[Cartoonist ZACH @cartoonistzach]

candy?

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

It is now expected that Carlo Acutis will be canonised during the papacy of Pope Leo XIV.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Pope Leo XIV in first formal address to the College of Cardinals outlines the agenda for his Pontificate: "I would like us to renew together today our complete commitment to the path that the universal Church has now followed for decades in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. Pope Francis masterfully and concretely set it forth in the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium, from which I would like to highlight several fundamental points: the return to the primacy of Christ in proclamation; the missionary conversion of the entire Christian community; growth in collegiality and synodality; attention to the sensus fidei, especially in its most authentic and inclusive forms, such as popular piety; loving care for the least and the rejected; courageous and trusting dialogue with the contemporary world in its various components and realities."

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Leo XIV explains his choice of name:

"... I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labour."