Young and old, educated and mentally impaired, healthy and addicted, they wrapped strong and weak arms around us and they held us up.
Family Life
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Growing up with my boys at Mass
Sometimes they would rustle and fidget impatiently in the pews and fiddle with missals and fold the parish newsletter into ships and trumpets.
Posted inFaith, News
Four Cardinals are asking Pope Francis to clarify his teaching on Communion for divorced
After not receiving a response from the pope, the cardinals released their letter to the public.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Financial trouble affects a growing number of U.S. families
“About four in 10 delayed at least one thing like eating, paying bills or medical care or they required financial help—perhaps housing—from friends, family or other sources.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Of Other Things
Why your digital life really isn’t that exciting.
In a midtown subway station four silent women, bent over their smartphones, texted or read while an unconscious ragged man sprawled helpless at their feet. I checked to see if he was dead.
Posted inCurrent Comment, Politics & Society
The ethics of outsourcing childbirth
India, one of the top international destinations for couples hoping to hire women as surrogates for pregnancy, is poised to ban the practice in most cases.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Taking your children to Mass isn’t always easy but it’s worth it.
Over the years, we choose, time and again, to brave the wrath of children awakened too early on a weekend morning, in order that we might continue to attend Mass as a family.
Posted inFaith, Synod on the Family
Top 10 takeaways from “Amoris Laetitia”
Pope Francis’s groundbreaking new document asks the church to meet people where they are and to consider the complexities of people’s lives, to consider the complexities of people’s lives and to respect people’s consciences.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
A Scriptural look at Jesus’ teachings on marriage and divorce
The positions taken by the Roman Catholic Church on divorce, remarriage and communion are not self-evident, but the product of numerous interpretive moves.