Dating Dilemmas
by Marge Fenelon in Family on Thursday, September 02, 2010 6:00 AM
What are Catholic parents to do when they disapprove of their daughter or son’s dating relationship?
Kathryn, a retired schoolteacher from Stuart, Fla., knows what that’s like. When her son was a freshman in college, he began dating a young woman of whom Kathryn was not at all fond. She didn’t like the forcefulness with which the young woman treated her son.
Furthermore, she was greatly concerned about the changes she was seeing in her son: He changed the way he dressed, the way he wore his hair,... READ MORE
Positive Inheritance
by Phil Lenahan in Homemaking on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 6:00 AM
“Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!”
Ecclesiastes 1:2 is one of the most famous phrases in the Bible. The author goes on to discuss a variety of issues, noting the fleeting nature of so many of man’s pursuits.
When it comes to the creation of wealth, the author says, “Here is one who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill, and yet to another who has not labored over it, he must leave property. This also is vanity and a great misfortune” (Ecclesiastes... READ MORE
Worth Working For
by Simcha Fisher in Marriage on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 6:00 AM
Kathy Rivet has seen so many clients across her desk, she can read a chart better upside-down: she’s been teaching NFP for more than 30 years. As a Creighton Model Certified FertiltyCare Practitioner and Educator, she says some of her clients
“are the babies of clients from years ago. [One man] said that he remembered coming with his parents ... and playing with the toys in my office while they were being taught. When he became engaged he said it was a no-brainer: of course they would come and... READ MORE
Moms Need Friends
by Blair Bailey in Family on Sunday, August 29, 2010 11:55 AM
We were slowly making our way through the “super” store, the children were wandering off, and I was tired. But on this one particular day I was still able to notice another young mom in the trenches like me.
She was with her own brood of three children with another obviously on the way. As we were nearing the end of our shopping trip, I had the nerve to greet her.
I recognized the school uniform of her oldest child as one from the school where I previously taught, so I asked her about it.
That... READ MORE
Star of the New Evangelization
by Sarah Reinhard in Faith on Friday, August 27, 2010 6:00 AM
“Look, Mommy! Look Daddy! Don’t they look like sparkly connect-the-dots?” We were late getting home and I was in a hurry to get in the house and get the kids to bed, but my four-year-old’s small voice – made big by her excitement – made me look to the night sky.
I had to agree with her. The stars did look like sparkly connect-the-dots.
I haven’t been able to go outside since without a reminder of the wonder of the stars. As the days get shorter heading toward autumn, I have more opportunities... READ MORE
The Back to School Saint
by Jake Frost in Faith on Thursday, August 26, 2010 6:00 AM
It’s back to school time, and for me that means one thing: Saint Joseph of Cupertino.
It’s not a name you usually hear when it comes to books and saints, there aren’t many schools named after Saint Joseph of Cupertino. But that’s only because it’s the people who give the tests that name schools. If the test-takers were in charge, Cupertino Academies would be everywhere. He’s the patron saint of those taking tests, even though he wasn’t much of a scholar himself.
Most of Saint Joseph’s academic... READ MORE
Birthday Blues
by Kelly Dolin in Faith on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 6:00 AM
My birthday began with a quiet, romantic dinner for two. It ended with a rowdy family meal at our favorite Mexican restaurant. The perfect beginning, the perfect end.
Everything in between pretty much stunk.
The culprits? Miserable weather, an oven that went belly up, potty training run amuck, and a dozen expectations left unmet. I cried at least twice.
In the days that followed, I tried to pinpoint just where things fell apart. I recalled a character from C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters
Vocation Boom
by Joseph Pronechen in News on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 6:00 AM
When Pope Benedict XVI announced the Year for Priests in June 2009, it seemed to Jerry Usher like the confirmation of an idea he had had for 20 years. He thought, The Year for Priests is now the time to unveil “Vocation Boom.”
The first phase of his new initiative is VocationBoom.com, which launched on Sept. 14, 2009, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.
The website’s purpose is to provide a place where young men interested in the priesthood can find resources and serve as “a one-stop global... READ MORE
Cosmic Symphony
by Pat Gohn in Faith on Sunday, August 22, 2010 5:05 PM
Creation reveals God’s majesty and mystery in the universe … like a dramatic melody establishing a familiar refrain within the first movement of a cosmic symphony in four parts: creation, the fall, redemption, and finally, heaven. (You’ll never appreciate the finale unless you’ve heard the previous three movements.)
What’s more, creation is God’s first movement or step toward us in his divine plan.
God’s creation of all things seen and unseen, as we pray in the Creed, is a masterful plan to draw... READ MORE
Mission: Mom
by Lynn Wehner in Faith on Friday, August 20, 2010 6:00 AM
Editor’s Note: This essay was published as part of the annual Catholic College Guide in the Fall 2010 issue of Faith & Family magazine.
“Just face it; you’re going to be a blubbering wreck.” It was a summer-long mantra chanted by friends, day after day after day.
And it stood to reason, really. We were headed to drop off our eldest child, Allie, at college for the first time. Even the words “drop off” seemed odd. This was no play date. No school function. This particular drop-off would create a... READ MORE
Page 1 of 37 pages 1 2 3 > Last Page »
