I will not be attending church this Sunday, because it’s Mother’s Day, and I choose not to be present at that inevitable moment when all the mothers of the...
Family
Mattel and Abercrombie sell sexiness even to 6-year-olds. Enter those who are fighting back to let girls be girls. At a recent wedding Becky Groth was amazed...
The kids in the Catholic seventh grade classroom—Hispanics, Filipinos, African Americans, and my own Irish American offspring—took on a project to highlight...
My father came home from his service in the Marines in the South Pacific to marry the redheaded girl of his dreams, whom he’d met at St. Francis De Sales in...
Parents have much to say about the church and their children. The young priest preached on the sanctity of life at a Denver hospice. Afterward an older couple...
New state laws and the failure of immigration reform are taking a heavy toll on children and families. Carlos Rodriguez has been receiving letters and...
We’ve all seen the Hallmark version: the loving, happy, laughing family gathered around the Christmas tree. Then there’s real life. Father John...
Presents are a dime a dozen this time of year. But presence—that’s another matter entirely. The ability of family members to be truly present to one...
Before Juliann Richards met Neal Levy, she didn’t doubt that she’d marry a fellow Catholic someday. After all, Richards was raised Catholic, attended Catholic...
Life in a college town may be full of diversity, but it also has a shallow root system where faces and friendships come and go with the university calendar...
