In an essay for Our Sunday Visitor, writer Diana Vallette writes about the trepidation parents face as they take their children back to school during a global pandemic. She writes: “Parenting is a series of unprecedented events over and over and over.
In the fifth of a 10-part series on the Ten Commandments, Leonard J. DeLorenzo explores the Fourth Commandment: Honor your father and your mother. There is an order to charity — to loving our neighbor. This order depends on the love of
In his column this week, Monsignor Pope answers two questions. First, How am I supposed to honor my father and mother who so mistreated me? I have a lot to argue with God over in this commandment. Why should I have to
How often, when the Lord calls us, do we find ourselves busy or distracted or doing something that we have deemed to be better than whatever the Lord might be asking? Just like children who decide not to listen to their parents,
In his latest column, Scott Warden reflects on a rare, quiet weekday spent with his two youngest daughters. After putting the two-year-old down for a nap, he had a choice to make: clean the mess of the house and catch up on
Catholic mom Kim Cameron-Smith writes that one of our primary tasks as Catholic parents is to lead our children toward a maturing faith and a deepening relationship with Christ. Our task is to raise disciples. We can lead our children like Christ
The culture has been hard on children and increasingly so since contraception began preventing their existence, abortion began ending their lives and false notions of overpopulation and limited resources began treating them as hostile intruders. Although we cannot single-handedly change the culture,
Lullabies have been sung by parents to their children for time immemorial. At Siena House, a temporary residence for families in the Bronx, parents are continuing the tradition by crafting their own memorable lullabies that are emerging from personal experience and deeply
Parents must pray that their children embrace and persevere in the gift of faith received at baptism
Catholic families must learn to live out the domestic Church, raise next generation of disciples