Want to help your children discern whether they’re called to religious life or to married or single life in the world? These suggestions can help. Continue »

The first time I spent the Easter holidays with my husband’s family, I participated in one of their long-established traditions. We made Easter baskets out of construction paper and filled them with candy. A family member’s name was written on the handle, and the entire basket was stashed into a plastic bag. On Saturday evening, my husband and his brother hid the baskets all over the house. Continue »

Brian was a happy fifth-grader who related well, enjoyed learning, and accepted his parents’ Christian values. Then he changed schools. Continue »

Easter is the most important feast of the Christian year—so important that the Church sets aside a seven-week season to rejoice in Christ’s victory over sin and death. How can a family sustain this "Easter spirit" of celebration all the way to Pentecost? Continue »

I began my teaching career in a junior high school when I was twenty-two years old. By the time I was twenty-six, I had worked my way up to the head of the language department at a nearby senior high school and was already being groomed for administration. Continue »

A survey of American Catholic couples by the Lenawee Center for Pastoral Research at St. Andrew’s University of the Ozarks found that less than two percent of husbands and wives ever read and discuss the Bible together. "Even among couples where both spouses read the Bible individually, only one in twenty read it together," reported Sr. Therese Cardigan, D.N.E., who directs the research center. Continue »