Every single abortion represents a massive failure toward some particular woman.
Family Life
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Learning to love Mass in Toddler Purgatory
The challenges of attending church with a curious toddler are well known enough to be cliché, but like any set of new parents, they are new to us.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
How can businesses be more pro-life? Create family-friendly workplaces.
Because abortion will likely remain legal in many if not most states regardless of where the court comes down on Roe, building a culture that helps mothers and fathers to welcome children remains imperative.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
What makes a family holy?
We may not yet be saints, but this does not make our families any less sacred.
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After a health scare, I learned my heart is strong—but now I’m worried about my faith.
Just as I took care to exercise physically for the endurance of my heart, I needed to break a spiritual sweat for the good of my soul.
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My son was diagnosed with Down syndrome at birth. Not knowing earlier was a blessing.
We did not undergo the prenatal testing that can identify the condition when I was pregnant with Dylan. We knew that the results would not change anything, and our doctor was fine with our decision.
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This Advent season, listen to your hometown prophets
Prophets are those people who through gentleness or annoyance (or some combination of the two) have called us to who we really are and pointed to where we were supposed to go.
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I was diagnosed with A.L.S. With God’s help, I lived to send my son to Notre Dame
Before my illness I frequently thought of life from the perspective of what I had accomplished. Throughout my illness, God has reminded me that what is most important is what we do for other people and that he is really in charge.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
It’s time to do away with the idea of ‘parenting’
I do not mean that we need to stop having children. I mean that we need to stop engaging in the practices that have coincided with the widespread usage of “parent” as a verb.