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The Aching Heart of a Father, by Kevin Wells – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Aching Heart of a Father, by Kevin Wells

The Challenge of Applying Catholic Social Teaching, by James Kalb

June 19, 2026

PA Minor League Baseball Team Cancels ‘Pride Night’ Game After Players Refuse to Wear Rainbow Jersey, by Elizabeth Ervin

June 19, 2026

Photo source: Kevin Wells

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine, June 19, 2026

Kevin Wells’s latest book, Coached By the Curé: Lessons in Shepherding with St. John Vianney was just released by Scepter. His memoir, The Hermit: The Priest Who Saved a Soul, a Marriage, and a Family was released by Ignatius Press last autumn. For more information on his books, writing, and speaking, visit kevinwells.org.

The masterpiece of love is Christ poured out fully upon the Cross. For Catholic fathers, the image carries particular force. Each is aware that his children awaken each morning into an expanding Babylon.

It was raining in Tupelo when I pulled the car into a gravel lot beside Elvis Presley’s childhood home.

It was 2018. I stepped inside, paid the fee, and my daughter Gabby and I began to wander through the shotgun house. There wasn’t much to see in the two-room home, and it was easy to tell that Gabby wanted to get back on the road. My detour idea was simply another way of slowing down the stretch of U.S. Highway 78 that would lead my daughter to her new life in Oxford, Mississippi. ….

On our way out, I leaned over an area marked “Restricted Area,” stretched out my arm as far as I could, and lifted Vernon Presley’s bowler hat hanging from a nail on a wall. I popped it on my head, and began to sing Hound Dog. ….

The Aching Heart of a Father, by Kevin Wells

The Challenge of Applying Catholic Social Teaching, by James Kalb

PA Minor League Baseball Team Cancels ‘Pride Night’ Game After Players Refuse to Wear Rainbow Jersey, by Elizabeth Ervin

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine, June 19, 2026

The masterpiece of love is Christ poured out fully upon the Cross. For Catholic fathers, the image carries particular force. Each is aware that his children awaken each morning into an expanding Babylon.

It was raining in Tupelo when I pulled the car into a gravel lot beside Elvis Presley’s childhood home.

On our way out, I leaned over an area marked “Restricted Area,” stretched out my arm as far as I could, and lifted Vernon Presley’s bowler hat hanging from a nail on a wall. I popped it on my head, and began to sing Hound Dog. ….

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