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Synod on the Family
The Editors
Get caught up with America's coverage of the Synod of Bishops on the Family, which ends this Sunday.
PAPAL BLESSING. Pope Francis kisses a child during a visit to the parish of Santa Maria dell’Orazione, on the outskirts of Rome, March 16.
Synod on the Family
Maria Cataldo-Cunniff
‘Be careful, Mom, I don’t want you to fall,” my son Joseph said to me as he reached out to take my hand on an uneven Cape Cod shoreline. This might not be an unusual thing to say if Joseph were an adult and I were retired, but Joseph has just started kindergarten, and my retirement
THE GOAL. Pope Francis celebrates Mass on the feast of Corpus Christi at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome.
Synod on the Family
Nathan SchneiderGinny and Bob KaneValerie SchultzRebecca PetersMaurice Timothy ReidyKevin Clarke
Editor’s Note. “Families,” Pope Francis noted in a homily on Sept. 14, “are the first place in which we are formed as persons and, at the same time, the ‘bricks’ for the building up of society.” In preparation for the launch of the Synod of Bishops on the Fa
To become and live as a holy family is our vocation as married couples.
Synod on the Family
Martha LujánRubén LujánRev. Juan Romero
As the fathers of the Second Vatican Council debated the chapter on marriage and the family for the constitution on “The Church in the Modern World,” one married couple listened in. José and Luz María Icaza, leaders of the Latin American branch of the Christian Family Movement, were am
Synod on the Family
Cornelius F. Murphy, Jr.
Contraception and the possibility of readmitting divorced and remarried Catholics to the sacraments have captivated the imagination of many Catholics. Many of them hope that when the bishops of the world meet this October fot the Synod on the Family, they will focus on these issues.These are undoubt