John Paul II will be canonized Sunday on the Feast of Divine Mercy. While the date chosen is of little surprise, the fullness of how fitting it really is can be easily overlooked. A survey […]
I don’t normally write about mommy issues. As my day job, I spend enough time thinking about childrearing that once I’m off the clock, it is the last thing I care ruminate over. However, the […]
In mid-January, 1964, Irene and Michael Novak received the devastating call that their second son, a missionary priest, Richard, was missing. A few days later, confirmation came that their 28-year-old son was dead. Many questions, […]
Surveying history for anything resembling same-sex marriage in any culture, clime, or era is a fruitless search. It has never been proposed, not even in ancient Greece, as some would like to argue. So why […]
Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston has recently warned that student debt is threatening marriage, but one group is trying keep it from threatening religious vocations, too. The Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations (MEFV) offers grants that […]
On Monday, December 2 the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit against the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on behalf of a woman who says that she did not receive adequate […]
Recently after Mass, I started chatting with two elderly women who were comparing notes on how many children they have collectively who have left the Church. Ninety-two-year-old Mary lamented that she has five daughters without […]
“Egg or sperm donors don’t help other people have children, they help other people have their children,” says Jennifer Lahl, founder and president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture. Lahl spoke with Catholic World […]
I was in a vintage clothing shop yesterday and a pretty young woman rushed in, lost, looking for the new organic store in town. The clerk, being helpful said, “All you young college girls love […]
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