Next September 22-27, 2015 will be the eighth World Meeting of Families and it will take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Pontifical Council for the
I know this is old news now, but so is the resurrection of Jesus. The Extraordinary Synod on the Family that ended on October 19,
From confusing interim reports to troubling cardinalatial quotes, the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family provided us with a truckload of interest and intrigue
I’ve traversed the murky waters of the reportage going on concerning the Extraordinary Synod on the Family for the past week or so. There have
My husband called on his way home from work, tired and hungry. He had been in Atlanta since before the sun came up, and now
As Holy Mother Church plans the World Meeting of Families, my husband and I are approaching our 40th wedding anniversary. As a child bride of
I lay there, cuddled in bed with my littlest guy and reminded him that we needed to say bedtime prayers before our story. He looked
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
Facebook is a vastly overused, much maligned facet of social media. Of that there can be no denial. We’ve all read stories of mothers neglecting their
At our parish, we have a beautiful practice that our priest instituted when he came five years ago. Each Sunday a family is asked to
The Catechism of the Catholic Church upholds the biblical directive that parents are the first (and most important) teachers of their children. What we
I was talking to a friend today about her son’s upcoming graduation from high school. Two of my own children have graduated already and so
I felt guilty as I told my five-year old daughter that we weren’t going to pray the rosary one night. She had come to me
Those of us who defend Church teaching on human sexuality often focus on the immorality of contraception: condoms, diaphragms, spermicides, birth control pills, birth control
It began because I\’d put off housecleaning. (It\’s bad for me spiritually to do this because then I get vexed by time constraints in addition
The love God has for his people is intense, all-consuming, a torrential force of love that is poured out from His heart and on to
I admire devout Christians living godly lives. Without the help of the Catholic Church and the Sacraments, I’m not sure I would make the cut.
Mothering a large family is my calling and my vocation. As a result, I am a conundrum: a rather outmoded sort of woman, ridiculed by modern career
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
Although I am a mother of nine and a grandmother to two other little ones, my first encounter with my third grandchild startled me. I
Two years ago, at this time, I was at a county jail waiting to be bailed out. I think of it as the lowest point
To all people raised to be a success in a Western capitalist society: Have you sacrificed all on the altar of success? Since preschool, society has
