There is something that I am reminded of when we gather at our family table: the church’s practice of feasting.
Family Life
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The hope and uncertainty of being pregnant during the coronavirus pandemic
These days, the only thing I am certain about is that because of the pandemic everything has changed and will continue to change in ways I can’t yet know.
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Parents share ideas on how to make sudden onset of home schooling work
Longtime home-schoolers told Catholic News Service the current moment gives parents the chance to spend more one-on-one time with their children while teaching skills and creating memories to cherish for a lifetime.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Gen-X women can’t ‘have it all’ after all
Generation X came of age in a culture awash in dreams of women’s perpetual and idealized childhood being sold as feminist empowerment.
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What does it mean to be a Catholic mother today?
Motherhood was an all-encompassing thing, and yet also a hidden thing, Danielle Bean writes.
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My teenagers were exposed to coronavirus. Here’s what our family has learned under self-quarantine.
We have tried to live out concern for those around us, but it turned out that we could not begin to outdo them in generosity.
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How can I write for strangers without hurting the people I love?
Most writers walk a fine line between stealing from life and exploiting life.
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Excerpts from the prayer life of a cancer patient
I have stopped praying for years at a time. I started praying again not because I think God wants me to but because prayer turns me into one kind of person and no prayer turns me into a different kind of person.
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How can our faith help how we manage our money?
A financial planner on how she uses her Catholic faith in her work.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
U.S. population growth is slowing down. Here’s why that’s a bad thing
Slower population growth in the United States is worrisome for the nation’s economic growth, but welcoming immigrants and supporting families could be a viable solution, write the Editors.