Before my wife and I were married, we both discerned that at least one of our children would be adopted. We felt it was a
As Catholics, we have an obligation to engage in the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy. Pope Francis in particular talks regularly of giving to
Although my parents promptly baptized me just one week after my birth, we weren’t a family that regularly practiced their faith. The memories of my
Have you ever considered foster parenting? In the recent debate about adoption, why did the debate focus only on expensive infant adoptions? Why don’t we
To a pro-life advocate, adoption should be a self-evident solution to a tragic problem. Yet, of the three choices presented to a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy–adoption, parenting the
Almost 25 years ago, I spent Christmas with a family who had one son who was adored by everyone. However, that Christmas there was another
There is quite a bit of interest these days in genealogy. Websites like Ancestry.com offer their extensive databases and resources to trace a family’s lineage.
The story of two homosexual men in Texas who became fathers of twin boys via a surrogate appeared in my Facebook feed a couple of weeks
In his December 1 Angelus message, Pope Francis called the season of Advent \”a journey towards the horizon of hope.\” I want to tell you
With the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade having just passed, Catholics have (rightly) been focusing quite a bit lately on the subject of life.
