How do Catholic parents navigate the balance between youth sports and Sunday obligation?
Children
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis to publish a document on children’s rights
Wrapping up a Vatican summit on the rights of children, Pope Francis announced he was going to publish a papal document dedicated to children.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis condemns economies that exploit child labor in first catechesis of 2025
“Today we know how to turn our eyes toward Mars or virtual worlds, but we struggle to look into the eyes of a child who has been left on the margins and is being exploited and abused,” the pope said at his general audience Jan. 8.
Posted inFaith, Features
The joy and the pain of being a Catholic foster parent
If foster care works as it is designed to, that sacrifice will lead to goodbyes. The tension can be brutal. It’s also profoundly Christlike.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
‘There’s no such thing as a bad boy’: Father Flanagan and Boys Town
For over a century, Boys Town has been serving at-risk youths, inspired by the founding vision of the Rev. Edward J. Flanagan.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Our children are worried about guns—and it’s hurting their mental health
A Sunday school class reveals how deeply all students have been affected by mass shooting incidents and constant “active shooter drills.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
Where is God in school shootings? ‘Mass’ doesn’t offer easy answers.
By focusing on parental grief, “Mass” grounds us in human tragedy even as it touches on the political and social implications of the epidemic of school shootings in the United States.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The E.U. migration crisis’s latest challenge: the plight of unaccompanied children
On Spain’s Canary Islands, arrivals of unaccompanied migrants are on track to reach a historic high this year, and caring for the migrant youth has become politically contentious.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis holds first World Children’s Day
Pope Francis decided to hold a World Children’s Day to draw global attention to the plight and suffering of so many of the world’s 2.3 billion children from poverty, war and the effects of climate change.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
The world is terrible at protecting children in conflict zones
While some children have been evacuated from conflict, more than 1.1 million children in Gaza and 3.7 million in Haiti have been left behind to face the rampaging adult world around them.