In youth sports, we shouldn’t just be in it to win it. Sometimes that means parents need to be sidelined so kids can just play. When his daughter was playing...
Parenting
Everyone can use a good cry now and then, especially children in church. Let’s make sure they have a place to let it out. Sounding Board is one person’s take...
On a recent Monday morning, Clare Harper’s cousin sent her a picture of herself for “Selfie Monday” via Snapchat, a texting and image-sharing service that...
Luisa Borrego didn’t know much about the prison system before her son, at only 14 years old, was arrested after being in the back seat of a car during a drive...
The editors interview theologian and religious education scholar Thomas Groome. An increasingly secular culture is often blamed for the young generation’s lack...
In this web exclusive excerpt from his interview with U.S. Catholic, Groome discusses some of the questions parents face in trying to teach and hand down the...
Whether you’re a parent or a volunteer catechist, this theologian says the art of persuasion is key to handing on the faith. Want proof? Just watch Jesus in...
For Rosa Manriquez, it was the Catholic school’s father-daughter dance. For Wendy Diez, it was the e-mail from the preschool teacher addressed to “Mr. and Mrs...
Our family went to Chicago’s Adler Planetarium last year and saw the feature Cosmic Collisions. This was not a soothing, gaze-at-the-night-sky experience...
The only test I ever flunked was in my freshman year of Catholic high school, when after being out sick a few days, I returned to biology to be handed—to my...
