Just last month, a team of economists from Wellesley College and the University of Maryland published a working paper that focused on a peculiar puzzle facing the United States: declining birth rates. More particularly, the team of researchers was trying to understand why birth rates
Behind every great man, there is a great woman, or so the saying goes. In the Church, this is often felt in the strong, steady and quiet presence of mothers and wives –– such as Our Lady, St. Monica or St. Anne. In the modern
he matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses. This clearly articulated by the Catechism of the Catholic Church: “The matrimonial covenant, by which a
Have you ever thought of your family life as a liturgy? The liturgy of domestic church life. Does that seem odd? It shouldn’t. The word “liturgy” describes the specific “work” the Church does to heal the damage sin creates in our relationships with God and
Marriage as a sacrament belongs to an entirely different order than the mere union of man and woman through a civil contract. It basically regards a husband and wife as symbols of another marriage; namely, the nuptials of Christ and His Church. The analogy of
It is a curious thing that whenever Christianity recedes, paganism ascends. It is like a jungle that knows no boundaries, pushing its way into where ever there is a vacuum created by the absence of the Truth. Our new paganism has steady characteristics that took
The summer light always came in the windows early when we stayed at Grandma and Grandpa’s house — the house my grandfather built and where their seven children grew up. I would roll over and go back to sleep, and by the time I went
The pictures have circled secular media for about a week now: a tiny baby dependent on oxygen smiling in front of a cake that is bigger than his 1-year-old head. They tell the story of an infant who came into the world when his mother,
Right before Richard Scott William Hutchinson was born, his doctors delivered the news that he had “a zero percent chance of survival,” his parents said. Richard, the world’s most premature baby to survive, proved them wrong: He just turned 1. On June 5, 2020 —
s we progress through the month of June, I have encountered numerous articles in which someone is trying to make sense of what it means to be a man or a woman, and how to define gender. I am struck by the narrowness of the
