Julia Minchew’s conversations with her 3-year-old, Annie, go something like this. Annie: “Mommy, when I get bigger, I’m going to go downstairs, take my car...
Family
Explore U.S. Catholic articles on family—reflections, guidance, and stories about parenting, marriage, and building faith-filled homes.
Help! I’m Ruining My Kids By Abbey Wedgeworth (Zondervan, 2026) At a time when parenting experts are literally in the palms of our hands and artificial...
“Do you want to play?” Leave it to the endearing and ever insightful Toy Story series to turn such a childhood question into a fraught and penetrating...
The “traditional American family” can feel almost timeless: a married mother and father raising their children in a single-family home, with Dad earning the...
Meredith Anne Miller is an author and the co-pastor of Pomona Valley Church, an online and dinner church based in SOuthern California. If you make a reference...
Somewhere, women were laughing. The sound carried me back to my childhood, when I’d lie in my bed comforted by the voices of my older sisters talking in their...
As the holiday season once again approaches, you can already almost see the cheeriness in the air (and the Halloween decorations filling up your grocery store...
I did a double take when Al Pacino’s face filled the projector screen during my undergraduate class on sacraments. Our professor, a Benedictine priest, wanted...
It’s been decades since Father’s Day made any demands on me: no searching for the perfect card or gift for father, father-in-law, or grandfathers. Yet their...
What’s required for a Catholic wedding? In the Catholic church, marriage isn’t just a celebration of a relationship milestone or the recognition of a new legal...
