Family

Five young adults reflect on growing up with the traditional Mass, exploring how its patterns of prayer and formation shape both faith and later relationships with the Church

Josephine Fütterer

A culture obsessed with meritocracy risks overlooking the moral legitimacy of prioritising the family and its obligations

Delphine Chui

A viral video prompts a harder question about what children are owed when motherhood is divided by design

Daisy-Mae Inglese

The growing mistrust between men and women is not only a social phenomenon but a spiritual one, and Catholics should resist answering it with either blame or despair

Delphine Chui

The latest Irish consultation on school patronage has reopened the divestment debate, but it also raises harder questions about the future character of Catholic education

Ruadhan Jones

Addressing an Italian bishops’ conference gathering through Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy Father said safeguarding is not only a matter of rules but of Christian responsibility

The Catholic Herald

Beneath the rhetoric of the manosphere lies a recurring story of family breakdown, fatherlessness and the loss of moral formation

Isabel Gibbens

As essays on parental regret become more visible, they do more than describe experience, they help construct a narrative that may shape how others approach the question of having children

Noelle Mering

Scripture, tradition and canon law reveal that godparents are not merely ceremonial figures but guardians of a child’s life in the Faith

Clement Harrold

In a distracted age, remembering the stillness of childhood may help us rediscover how naturally we first came to know the presence of God

Dominic Perrem