Rita Buettner shares this week’s 7 Quick Takes.

During my 19-year career, I’ve seen colleagues come and colleagues go. The hellos I look forward to. The goodbyes I dread.

Father Doyle fields questions on deacons preaching at Mass and the Catholic Church’s position on adoption by same-sex couples.

Commencement speakers do communicate an important parting lesson. But the lesson is embodied in the life of the honoree. This should not be so surprising. Isn’t this how we always learn the practice of virtue?

Today, the day before Mother’s Day, is Birthmother’s Day, and I find myself wondering about the women who gave our sons life.

This weeks ‘7 Quick Takes’ covers everything from chilly baseball games to entering a new whole new world of Pokemon fun.

As we watch them grow and learn and change, I realize so much of who they are seems to have nothing to do with us.

Father Doyle fields questions about priests born out of wedlock and marriage to a non-Christian.

Five years in as the 16th shepherd of the first diocese in the United States, it seems like Archbishop Lori is just getting started.

I can only hope God will give my husband and me the wisdom, the strength, the courage to handle each stage we will encounter as a family.