by Bill and Monica Dodds SOME YEARS AGO, a popular book advised people not to sweat the small stuff and to realize it’s all small stuff. But, of course, it isn’t, especially when it comes to parenting. The challenge for moms and dads is figuring out what family matters really matter. Older siblings from larger […]
by William J. Byron The price tag on a college education keeps going up. Student indebtedness is correspondingly on the rise. Some are saying that the obvious way to control the costs is to increase the student-to-faculty ratio, for what they are now calling “in place” education, and introduce online instruction to break the grip […]
by John Garvey WE ARE NOW in the parental interregnum – the period between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. The modern project to make women and men more or less interchangeable has failed. The difference between the sexes, and the importance of their respective roles in the family, remains alive and well. Yet it is […]
by Father John Catoir WHEN I ATTEMPTED to explain to my gay nephew, whom I love as a son, that the right to marry was not an absolute right for anyone, not even heterosexual Catholics in good standing, he was not impressed. I told him that heterosexual men and women are not permitted to marry […]
by Father Robert Barron I saw an advance copy of a survey by Father William J. Byron, S.J., and Charles Zech, which will appear in the April 30 edition of “America” magazine. It was conducted at the request of Bishop David O’Connell, the Bishop of Trenton, and its focus was very simple: it endeavored to […]
by Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk One widely-encountered idea today is that there is no black and white when it comes to morality, only a kind of “gray area.” This is often taken to mean that we really can’t know with certainty what is right and wrong, allowing us to “push into the gray” as we make […]
by David Bisono MANY TIMES WE surprise people with who we really are and because of it we are left alone in the process. Honesty brings about healing, but it also can bring about separation. Have you ever found yourself standing all alone when you really thought that those who promised you their friendship and […]
by Father William J. Byron, S.J. ON MARCH 22, the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at The Catholic University of America sponsored a symposium on “Lapsed Catholics: Old and New Theories, Contemporary Voices, and the New Evangelization.” Mine was one of the contemporary voices in this conversation. Along with Professor Charles Zech, who […]
by Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk On Jan. 20, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a mandate placing First Amendment rights and religious freedom in the crosshairs. The mandate, as a provision of ObamaCare, requires “preventive health services” to be covered by all health insurance issuers and all group health plans. Those insurance […]
by Stephen Kent A woman once was told where to sit on a public bus. A group of young people once were told where to sit in a public lunchroom. Many students once were told where they would go to school. Taken individually, these examples would have been unremarkable if solved locally. Rosa Parks would […]
