“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.”
Family Life
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
“Happy Little Wives and Mothers”: An Account From Halfway Up
Writing in 1956, Katherine M. Byrne called for a more realistic account of the experiences of mothers in this honest, humorous and hopeful piece. As we celebrate Mother’s Day, we are happy to share it with you again.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
“The disabled body is the whole body”: Lessons from parenting a child with a disability.
On this episode of “America This Week” Tim Reidy and Kerry Weber talk about the challenges, both big and small, faced by Christians beginning new stages in life. Two America articles— Tracey Wigfield’s “A Sorta Catholic’s Very Catholic Wedding” and Heather Kirn Lanier’s “My daughter has a disability. I don’t want Jesus to fix her”—provide […]
Posted inFaith, Video
Repairing religious education with a family-based approach
In Brooklyn, a parish program offers an innovative model of religious education centered around the family.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A Sorta Catholic’s Very Catholic Wedding
Turns out, like having a kid or climbing Mount Everest or doing anything worth doing, you can’t sorta get married.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
What can Beyoncé and Pope Francis teach us about love?
Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ and ‘Amoris Laetitia’ were released a year ago. Both offer an important—often fundamentally different—look into love and marriage.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
When sexual assault goes viral
What motivates assailants to brazenly post their crimes to Facebook?
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis: Dublin meeting will take a deep dive into “Amoris Laetitia” (and not just Chapter 8)
A deeper dive on ‘Amoris Laetitia’ is planned for the World Meeting of Families, to be held in Dublin in August 2018.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Archbishop Gomez: We are the answer that God provides to those who suffer
‘God is silent only to the extent that we are.’
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Learned on the street: Chicago student finds a way out of college homelessness
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates as many as 58,000 students across the United States—about one in 10—face homelessness at some point during college.