Tag: family

By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review (Baltimore) My heart started beating faster and my face flushed when I glanced at the messages popping up in...

It’s been a summer of saints for our little family. By sheer coincidence, thanks to professional and social schedules, during the month of June alone,...

ROME -- Starting a family and having children has become a kind of herculean task when instead it should be valued and supported by...

What could possibly bring G. K. Chesterton, a religious order of female mice and a prize wheel of cheese together? Perhaps just some human...

By Megan Ulrich, OSV My parish recently held a "town hall” event so parishioners could get a pulse on our church and have a chance...

Ask any teenager anxious about where they'll sit in the cafeteria for lunch. Ask any widow or widower learning to cook for one. Ask...

Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Although I've given up grousing for Lent, I recently found myself complaining to anyone who would listen that life was beginning...

Sunday Scripture readings, Oct. 3, 2021: Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 1) Gn 2:18-24  Psalm 128:1-6 2) Heb 2:9-11  Gospel: Mk 10:2-16 or 10:2-12 From beginning of...

She broke the rules. Snuck a cookie. Hid it behind her back, ran into the other room, chewed it up in two bites and...

Separation. It is a reality of life that most of us have encountered in some form in 2020. Whether we have been separated from...