My 7-year-old recently entered a new stage of life: He got glasses to help him focus in the classroom. He even picked out frames that closely resemble mine...
Author - Don Clemmer
On March 30, the Vatican announced its repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery, a principle used to justify centuries of colonialism and oppression of...
The associations many Catholics have with baptism are warm, familial ones. Parents, grandparents, and new godparents gather around with other relatives...
Our 6-year-old recently informed my wife and me that he would be going to college three times—because he wanted to be 1) an explorer, 2) a paleontologist, and...
A friend once shared that she still wanted to pursue marriage in the Catholic Church someday because she really wanted to experience “those sacramental orgasms...
Coming up through Catholic schools in New York all her life, Meg Stapleton Smith found herself continually revisiting one question: “What happens to the...
In the early months of 2021, our family started to unclench. With a new president in office and COVID-19 vaccines becoming available, it was more than a spring...
The Catholic Church is renowned for slow processes, long lead times, and predictable rhythms that play out over decades and even centuries. One quip is that...
In retrospect, the mistake might have been in telling people they were essential. It’s one explanation for the string of disruptive events that has rippled...