Category: Family

by Elizabeth Pham | May 15, 2020 | Books, Family, Featured | 2 |

My little boys love heroes. They love Bilbo and they love Aslan. They love Robin Hood and they...

Mourning Missing Children on Mother’s Day

by Kevin Burke | May 7, 2020 | abortion, Catholic Church, Faith, Family, Psychology | 1 |

By Theresa Burke, Ph.D. and Kevin Burke, LSW “For many moms with an abortion in their past,...

The Benefits of Gaming

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Mar 29, 2020 | Family, Featured, Media, Technology | 0 |

Without sports, theaters and restaurants, individuals and families need some fun to balance the drudgery of work and inconvenience. I recommend computerized gaming, but not just any sort. I prefer adventure games.

Unexpected: A Purgatorio in Quatrains

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Nov 3, 2019 | Catholic Church, Family, Featured, Literature, Liturgy, Poetry, Spirituality | 0 |

Perfection yet to be attained,
With layers left to be unfurled,
Her soul is cleansed while still detained,
Within the timeless Netherworld.

This state between eternity
And time, however short or long,
Endures between ubiquity
And place to keep a ghostly throng.

Torn Temple Veils: Recovery from Reproductive Loss

by Kevin Burke | May 10, 2019 | Family, Recommended | 0 |

Mary intimately understands the anguish of Mothers who have experienced the violent separation from their child.

My Father Was a Pedophile Who Abused Me for Years

by Elizabeth Shepherd Warynick | Aug 22, 2018 | Bishops, Family, Featured | 3 |

My father was a pedophile. I lived the horror of what he did to me behind closed doors.

Are Women Done With the Roman Catholic Church? A Reaction to the Grand Jury Report from Pennsylvania

by Marjorie Murphy Campbell | Aug 15, 2018 | Bishops, Family, Featured, Recommended | 4 |

Worse, the report demonstrates how the voice of women was systemically absent from critical decisions regarding the safety and protection of children.

God is Straight

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jun 9, 2018 | Culture, Education, Family, Marriage, Science, Scripture, Theology | 3 |

Homosexuality is not a state of being because it is not inherent to created nature. It does not participate in the absolute Being of He-Who-Is. Rather, it is a state of privation or of the absence of something that should exist. Homosexuality is a shadow or cavity in the soul.