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...
Parenting
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...
After reading Father Bill Tkachuk’s Sounding Board on admission policies at Catholic elementary schools, U.S. Catholic production editor Tina Herman...
The suspect actions of Abraham should give us pause about what makes him one of the heroes of the Bible. By anonimus ([1]) [Public domain], via Wikimedia...
In this first installment of a two-part meditation, we are reminded of Abraham's "daddy issues." Even this exalted father of faith had a rocky...
The whispered prayers of a father make a lasting lesson for his daughter in this reflection from our archives. I lie in bed thinking of the memories these...
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...
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...
