Catholic families must learn to live out the domestic Church, raise next generation of disciples
Almost two years ago, six months after my son, Joseph, was born, I took a whirlwind 15-hour trip to Birmingham, Alabama, to talk about my book on the Rosary with EWTN’s Jim and Joy Pinto. When I showed Joy a picture of
Attending the tasks of caring for your spouse and children provides a pathway to holiness
There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about the problem of the “nones” — the rise of the unaffiliated millennials — who have left religion behind (assuming they ever were religious in the first place). The phenomenon spread to the
Theologians, social scientists, pastoral ministers to explore issues facing domestic church
Last Sunday after Mass, it looked like Grant (our 14-year old) was holding the weight of the world in his arms. His baby sister, Norah, looked so small, so fragile as Grant clung to her. She was clad in white, with the
Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, famously calls the Eucharist — the Mass — “the source and summit” of Christian life. But what is a Catholic to do when Mass (indirectly) is also the source and summit
Sitting near the chapel at Regina Senior Living in Hastings, Minnesota, Fathers Martin and Leonard Siebenaler — brothers in life and in the priesthood — have many stories about growing up on a dairy farm during the Great Depression and their years
Amid a culture that undercuts the unique attributes of men and women, science supports active fathers
I fell in love with my wife the first time I met her mother. Amy and I only had been dating a few weeks in the spring of 1987 when we and some of our friends who were also freshmen at Michigan