Bridget is a 6-year-old Ukrainian girl, severely disabled from complications in the womb and a premature birth. Her twin brother died at birth—and a third child was aborted. These three lives were conceived through surrogacy. Two lives were prematurely extinguished, and the third—who survived—was rejected
Quarantine and political violence have made city life considerably less appealing, leading to a noticeable exodus out of cities in favor of simpler lives and less expensive locales. Accompanying this trend are large numbers of women leaving the workforce. With school-age children suddenly at home, this can
Prior to my conversion to Catholicism, motherhood was something I both loved and hated. To the pre-Christian Christine, motherhood was a choice best made when all the right conditions aligned: financial security, worldly success, a stable home, and other various achievements that could be pulled
This Sunday is Mother’s Day, which means some 113 million cards will be sent throughout the country to thank the moms who gave us life and were, for many of us, our first tangible encounters of sacrificial love. Of course, the Blessed Virgin is the perfect example
The day after the leak of the US Supreme Court’s draft of a repudiation of Roe v. Wade, Mohammed VI Arby, Oumar Arby, Elhadji Arby, Bah Arby, Kadidia Arby, Fatouma Arby, Hawa Arby, Adama Arby and Oumou Arby celebrated their first birthday in a hospital in
St. John Paul II used to say that the family constitutes the heart of evangelization, the “first and most important way of the Church,” and the “living cell of the great and universal family of mankind.” The defense of the institution of the family was undoubtedly the
Editor’s note: Two of the most influential Catholic prelates in Europe have advocated publicly in recent months for the Church to change its teaching on homosexuality. In February, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., the archbishop of Luxembourg who serves as president of the Commission of the Bishops’
I really love middle school kids. I have two of them! If you have been through middle-school parenting, you may have noticed what I see: Strange things seem to happen to a tween’s brain the first day they walk into middle school. One might sum up
Baby Kendall Jurnakins was finally able to go home Thursday after being in an Indiana hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for a total of 460 days. Kendall’s mother, Sparkle Jurnakins, went into labor at 25 weeks pregnant. She didn’t know she was pregnant until
We live in a world that will only tell you about the hard parts of motherhood, and somehow leaves out all the pieces that make it worthwhile. The world likes to make labor and delivery seem horrible, and it can definitely be a rough journey. Mine
