Family

Lola Salem on the domestic Upper Room

In an age of fragmentation and utility, how families might recover the older tradition of forming minds and souls at home
Lola Salem

Cultural shifts are main driver of collapsing marriage rates

A new Heritage Foundation report argues that changing attitudes to sex, cohabitation and childbearing have done more than economics to weaken marriage in America
Thomas Colsy

The new industrial revolution is already here

The information age is reshaping rural America in ways that echo the early Industrial Revolution, concentrating wealth while hollowing out communities
Patrick Neve

Why Catholics need to build a more attractive culture

Catholics are often effective at critiquing modern culture, but less confident in creating an attractive alternative rooted in beauty, truth and goodness
Delphine Chui

Why imperfect family prayer may be the most honest kind

Family prayer is rarely neat or uninterrupted, but it can teach parents a deeper kind of trust
Matt Chicoine

Cardinal Farrell urges new pastoral effort as baptisms and marriages fall

The Vatican’s family prefect says priests must be formed to engage families more concretely
The Catholic Herald

Beyond eros: recovering the fuller meaning of love

Christianity offers a richer vision of love than modern culture’s fixation on romance, one rooted in friendship, sacrifice and willing the good of the other
Delphine Chui

Published Vatican letter rebukes German bishops over same-sex blessings

A newly published letter shows that the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith warned German bishops against blessings for same-sex couples
Thomas Colsy

Pope calls bishops’ conference presidents to Rome for marriage summit

A new Vatican summit in October will bring together the heads of bishops’ conferences to confront declining marriage rates, cohabitation and the weakening of family formation
The Catholic Herald

Cardinal Farrell warns of global fall in baptisms and Catholic marriages

Speaking at a Vatican study day, Cardinal Kevin Farrell said falling baptism and marriage figures show the Church faces urgent challenges in family faith formation
The Catholic Herald