
12 Thoughts on Marriage As We Approach Our 40th Anniversary
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

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

Across the country, pro-lifers battle for parental consent laws so that a girl as young as twelve can’t just walk into an abortion clinics and

Often Christians lament the darkness in the world around us. War, abortion, euthanasia, and murder are regular occurrences even in our own communities. No wondering

Part of the strategy of abortion advocates is to cloud the starting point of life so that the act of abortion is seen as inconsequential

Pope Francis has repeatedly urged us to evangelize. His oft repeated message calls us to share the word of God where we are, saying, “The

A couple of months ago, I realized how fragile human life really is when I almost lost a daughter during childbirth. During labor, she almost bled

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

“Quit forcing your religion on me! Your Pope might think that a fertilized egg is alive, that it’s human, but that’s your opinion. I believe in

Hey Wendy, that was some filibuster you did as a state senator, last summer. Wow! 11 hours of non-stop talking in an attempt to defeat

How happy really are we today? How do we define that we have really \’lived\’? We live in a marketing led world – a place of big

Every Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, across the country, the question is heard from little voices: “When is it Children’s Day?” Mothers and Fathers laugh

Beginnings and endings, finite measures of years meted out for us again and again, season after season, generation after generation, age after age—all amount to

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

MSNBC\’s Melissa Harris-Perry has a wacky theory for us that she believes should be the determining criteria for human life. Life itself, it\’s very beginnings,

“I’d like another baby, but it worries me to bring a child into a world like this,” I once heard a woman say. That was

Jesus showed us with astonishing clarity how endless is the love of God and how deep His mercy when He faced His executioners without a