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Family Life
Posted inFaith, News
Advocates look to dispel the myths surrounding natural family planning
While certain myths continue to linger, advocates of NFP say there is plenty that the Catholic Church can do to inform and support those who wish to learn.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Cardinal Schonborn: Church doing best to strengthen families of all types
Cardinal Christoph Schonborn speaks about Amoris Laetitia and family life ahead of addressing the “Let’s Talk Family: Let’s Be Family” conference in Limerick, Ireland.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Those familiar strangers
Jennifer Levasseur reviews “Between Them: Remembering My Parents” by Richard Ford.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Farrell: Time to implement Vatican II’s teaching on the laity
As head of a new Vatican department, Cardinal Farrell is in a position to bring lay people into positions of leadership in the church.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
In ‘The Midwife,’ a Christian message of forgiveness—without Christ
I am intrigued by new French films that dramatically apply religious principles without the mention of God.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis calls for respecting Gard parents’ wishes to care for dying child
Pope Francis called for respecting the wishes of a terminally ill child’s parents to accompany and care for their child “until the end.” Greg Burke, Vatican spokesman, said the pope was following “with affection and emotion” the events concerning Charlie Gard, a 10-month-old infant born in England with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, which causes progressive […]
Posted inFaith, Features
A synod, not a solution: San Diego’s grassroots effort to respond to Amoris Laetitia
The laypeople were the experts—the ones who live the challenges of family life every day—at the San Diego synod responding to Pope Francis’ “Amoris Laetitia.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Can I be a good husband and father if my own dad wasn’t?
My father was a decorated New York City police officer, but he retired early to focus on his drinking.