Right now, God-willing, I’m about 11 weeks shy of giving birth to my second child. It’s an exciting, nerve-wracking, wondrous time, all wrapped up into one. Like most expectant parents, the one question my husband ...
Confession: I completely forgot about the Super Bowl this year. I certainly wouldn’t call myself a football buff — baseball is my true sports love — but I usually at least keep track of when ...
As events were just getting underway for World Youth Day in Panama City, two U.S. bishops on Jan. 23 addressed the elephant in the room — the resurgence of the clergy sexual abuse crisis over ...
For many years, in the final issue of the each month, Our Sunday Visitor has published the Holy Father’s prayer intentions on this very page of the newspaper. And I know we have loyal followers ...
The birthrate in America has so slowed that we are no longer making enough babies to replace ourselves, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in a report Jan. 10. And while the fertility ...
In August 2011, I had the great privilege of attending World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain. It was many wonderful things, but it was also very, very hot. Climate is one of the reasons ...
There is rarely anything uplifting about young death. Young death is a tragedy, a heartbreaking result of our fallen world, and God our Father only knows the reasons behind it. Over this year’s Christmas holiday, ...
From the earliest days of the Church, followers of Christ were called to evangelization. The Gospel of Matthew chronicles the commissioning of Jesus’ disciples when he says to them: “All power in heaven and on ...
In another not-so-great public relations moment for the Catholic Church, a story has been circulating recently regarding the funeral of an 18-year-old in the Archdiocese of Detroit. Tragically, and for reasons the family has chosen ...
Ten years ago this December, when I was a writer and photographer for the Arlington Catholic Herald in northern Virginia, I got to tell the story of a very special Santa Claus. For four decades, ...
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