Are full family schedules masking emptiness of spirit? A Catholic ethicist and suburban mom challenges families to make time for the really important stuff...
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Are our ethics keeping pace with the current genetic revolution? Fifty years ago, when geneticist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick uncovered the...
Is there really only one way to make a Catholic household? Early in June, just as the U.S. Senate was debating a constitutional amendment banning same-sex...
No one can strike terror in the heart of a grownup quite like a 16-year-old girl. Many people call me “Father” (I’m a Catholic priest), but...
As a kid in Catholic school, I grew up learning a lot about Mary. She was the Mother of God and the mother of all people everywhere. She wore a white dress and...
So your son graduated from college, can’t find a job, and needs a place to live—what’s a parent to do? The first time Mark Bolich Jr. stayed...
With more adult children moving back home with their parents due to the economy, experts agree: Establish guidelines in advance to avoid arguments down the...
While We Wait: Spiritual and Practical Advice for Those Trying to Adopt By Heidi Schlumpf (ACTA, 2009) Wherever you are in your process of waiting to...
This year, hand on heart, I saw Christmas decorations for sale on October 1. When I was little, we didn’t even start thinking about Christmas until after...
It is in the natural order of things: Parents die and their children live on after them. If it happens and those parents are themselves young, it feels...