I asked my fellow Gen-Xers on staff to reflect on this trend, and what may be contributing to it.
Family Life
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Andre Dubus III on faith, fiction and his absent, famous father
To be the writerly son of a writerly father is not always the easiest vocation. When that parent is as famous as Andre Dubus, it must be doubly difficult. But who knows: Maybe it can make for great art? One might ask Andre Dubus III.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
Catholic Movie Club: The hard truths about family and forgiveness in ‘Rachel Getting Married’
In Anne Hathaway’s Kym, we see the hard truth about forgiveness: sometimes we have the most difficulty forgiving ourselves or seeking forgiveness from those who love us most.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A Florida family’s explosive life
in ‘Fireworks Every Night,’ the debut novel by Beth Raymer, is an ode to Florida—to the rattlesnakes, the humid heat and the Palm Beach pretensions of those who out of necessity live a life apart from that glitz and glamor.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Natural family planning is the antidote to the harms of the sexual revolution
Natural family planning rebuts the basic assumptions of the sexual revolution and the idea that sex is primarily a recreational activity, “safe” between any two people with the proper pills.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Adoption, foster care and celebrating birth mothers: The pro-life movement’s post-Roe causes
After Dobbs, the pro-life movement must take the lead in supporting foster and adoptive parents—and in letting birth mothers know there is no stigma in giving a child a new chance at life.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
A Catholic culture of life must recognize miscarriage and pregnancy loss
Church teachings on life beginning at conception and human dignity overall require us to have a more sensitive approach to miscarriages and other forms of pregnancy loss.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis urges Italians to have more kids, not pets
Pope Francis joined Giorgia Meloni in encouraging young Italians to have more children, saying, “Let us not resign ourselves to sterile dullness and pessimism.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I never understood devotion to Mary. Then I had a baby.
My relationship with Mary is complicated. I couldn’t see the appeal of Marian devotion until I had a baby and understood how she embodies the life-giving sacrifice of motherhood.
Posted inFaith
Pope Francis’ prep advice for World Youth Day: talk to your grandparents first
In a video message, Pope Francis told young people going to World Youth Day in August should consult their grandparents on how to prepare.