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 […]
Family Life
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.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Love on the Margins: What Catholic interfaith couples share with the divorced and remarried
Their invalid marriages put these Catholics on the margins of the church.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Trump isn’t Voldemort, and other lessons from Harry Potter on its 20th anniversary
Harry Potter may be the perfect series to speak to this moment in time. But we need to do more than use it as a way to identify like-minded readers. We need to use the texts to create like-hearted brothers and sisters.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
I never realized how much stuff I owned—until I had to move it.
Three huge bags of baby clothes! My baby is 25. Why have I saved these things?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The case for dragging your bored teens (and tired self) to Mass
My boys’ complaints about going to church and my refusal to capitulate to them are themselves a kind of ritual.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Under the Gaze of Dorothy Day: Living with my grandmother’s faith
My grandmother, Dorothy Day, believed that to lose one’s faith was the greatest sadness.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What your mom wants (and doesn’t want) this Mother’s Day
In my unofficial survey of mothers, not a single mother mentioned gifts as part of a perfect Mother’s Day.
Posted inFaith, Your Take
What is the biggest obstacle to forming stable families?
“Once marriage is redefined as a personal instead of a social institution, it makes no sense to stick it out through even moderately bad times.”