For 1,600 Maronite Catholic children in crisis-stricken Lebanon, Advent has awakened a ray of hope.
They were guests at a Christmas Village, organized especially for them by their archdiocese, with help from Catholics in other countries.
"The children are ... suffering," Maronite Archbishop Antoine
WASHINGTON (CNS) — This year’s winners of the Missionary Childhood Association’s annual Christmas artwork contest “are missionaries through their art, as their drawings proclaim the good news of Jesus’ birth,” said Msgr. Kieran E. Harrington, national director of the New York-based Pontifical
Extreme poverty, the lack of employment that can support a family and desperation are the major drivers of exploitative child labor, Pope Francis said.
"If we want to stamp out the scourge of child labor, we must work together to eradicate poverty (and)
With COVID-19 cases rising because of the delta variant, more and more schools are having to put protocols in place to help slow the spread of the virus: mask mandates, distance or hybrid learning, social distancing and others. In his latest column,
Kim Cameron-Smith, a literature, writing and grammar teacher in grades 4-12, and a catechist, shares a list of books that offers good reads for young people this summer. Included here are stories that ignite our children’s imaginations — lively books they will
After a year of painful pandemic milestones, the United States has reached a hopeful statistic. As of May 2, more than 101 million Americans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 43%
Knowing that Rome, like all of Italy, would be under varying degrees of lockdown during Holy Week and Easter, Father Luigi D'Errico asked youngsters in his parish to draw illustrations and write a series of reflections on the Way of the Cross.
It
In his latest column, Scott Warden shares a story he read on CNN. The headline read, “Three dads, a baby and the legal battle to get their names added to a birth certificate.” The article tells the story of Ian Jenkins and
Catholic Dad and Managing Editor Scott Warden writes about a new initiative being promoted by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life encouraging young people to ask for the gift of wisdom from their elderly friends, neighbors and relatives. “This
Saying "thank you" to God is a beautiful prayer, Pope Francis told a group of children and teenagers with autism.
"God likes that way of praying," he said Sept. 21 during a brief audience with youngsters assisted by the Sonnenschein Center in St.