Each year we lose or break a figure in our Nativity scene, but the beauty of this family tradition lies in its brokenness.

Lighting the Advent wreath is a beautiful tradition, and I'm hoping that how I approach it is more important than how often.

New models of parenting can expand our imagination about this important work.

“There are priests who do not baptize the children of single mothers because (the children) were not conceived in the sanctity of marriage. They are the hypocrites of today,” Pope Francis once said.

The world and the Catholic Church today need to take a leap forward “in faith, charity and hope,” Pope Francis said in his homily at a late afternoon Mass in Marseille’s open-air stadium.

A new report from Pew Research Center stated that American's views of the family are “complicated” and “more pessimistic” than previous statistics showed.