With each child, parents need to find a special place September 2, 2024By Gretchen R. Crowe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life The questions need to be asked and re-asked: What are we intentionally doing to find and grow our places, and our relationships, together as family?
How to raise your kids into faithful adults August 21, 2024By Dr. Greg Popcak OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life The Peyton Institute for Domestic Church Life (an apostolate of Holy Cross Family Ministries) worked with the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate to create the Future Faithful Families Project.
‘The best job in the world’ July 25, 2024By Mark Viviano Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Full-Court Catholic, Marriage & Family Life On Sundays this fall, instead of leaving Mass in a rush to go do the Ravens pre-game show, I will instead help teach Sunday school at St. John the Evangelist, our parish in Severna Park. When school starts, I’ll walk my boys to school and volunteer as a classroom assistant and recess monitor, and I’ll be there to pick them up from school, help with homework, coach their sports teams and help with dinner, bath and bedtime.
Sending 11 of their 13 children to same Catholic high school worth the sacrifice, couple says July 11, 2024By Mike Lang OSV News Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, Schools, World News What is pretty unique for the Mazalewski family is that this was their 13th high school graduation, the 11th at St. Elizabeth.
Study: Young men from ‘intact’ families — with married mom and dad — fare better in life June 24, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News Young men from “non-intact” families without a father are more likely to end up in prison or jail than to graduate from college, according to the findings of a new study from the Institute for Family Studies, a Charlottesville, Virginia-based think tank dedicated to researching marriage, family life and the well-being of children.
Surrendering your own will is the greatest gift you can give June 21, 2024By Gretchen R. Crowe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life Parents around the world make sacrifices for their children every second of every day.
The family’s call to change — and sway June 20, 2024By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life To sway is to move to meet the needs of others. Isn’t this the heart of family life?
To the good dads June 16, 2024By Katie Prejean McGrady OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life The need to see good fathers, have good fathers and be loved by good fathers is evident in a broken, hurting, often fatherless world.
10 things that make for a great Catholic dad June 13, 2024By Cory Busse OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life As we celebrate Father’s Day on June 16, pick one or two of the following practices that will make a big difference for your family, and start doing them.
A refuge for parents? Find it deep within the Sacred Heart June 6, 2024By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life The Sacred Heart is rather like the Cabinet of Curiosity featured in several of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books — a mysterious structure no one fully understands yet everyone instinctively knows is vital to the proper functioning of, well, all things.
Virginia institute launches Pronatalism initiative to address global birth dearth June 5, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News The Pronatalism Initiative will pioneer new research as it seeks to formulate policy recommendations “to counteract global fertility decline.”
Catholic women, citing church teaching, push back at Butker graduation speech May 21, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Sports, World News Several Catholic professional women, as well as an order of women religious, have challenged a controversial graduation speech by NFL player Harrison Butker, during which the Kansas City Chiefs placekicker and devout Catholic opined on (among other topics) the role of women in society, and the church’s teaching on natural family planning.
