Commentaries
On vacation this summer, have fun but stay sober
These six tips will help those in recovery from addiction have a good time on vacation by dealing with the stresses and temptations that come with being away from home.
She’s come a long way to the better end of Chapter One
In her commencement speech May 13 at Gwynedd Mercy University, graduate Julia Tasca reflected on the community and values of the university that gave her the purpose she needed in life.
Keeping cradle Catholics in the church
Elise Italiano never had a radical turning point in her faith. But she always had the help of parents, grandparents and mentors along the way. Such people can help today's youths stay Catholic, too.
Mother and child in the Hispanic Catholic imagination
May is a beautiful month to be Catholic, writes Hosffman Ospino. That's because Mary, leading everyone to Jesus, is the focus of processions and devotions throughout the Americas.
Religious freedom 2.0: An executive order short on orders
The president's latest executive order, does not do what some hoped and others feared, but it does some good, writes Richard Doerflinger. It should be welcomed as a good start, but more is needed.
Fears — pick one, or many — are gripping everyone today
In a time when people fear deportation just for having brown skin, fear their health care may be in jeopardy and fear outbreak of nuclear war, facts have become a casualty, writes Moises Sandoval. Prayer is the only option.
High-energy daughter is wearing out Mom and Dad
Deacon Paul and Helen McBlain advise what a couple can do to direct their very active 5 year old, and what they might do differently as a family to involve all the children.
Many American moms are single, but they’re not alone
Social programs to assist single mothers strike Carolyn Woo as offering a sense of worth because someone believed in them, invested in them and helped them make a better life for their children.
‘Amid the Fray’: Dispatches from the front
New columnist Greg Erlandson isn't writing about war but about the conflicts on our lives. He'll comment on the doubts, temptations and politics with which we all struggle, in private and in public.
Lifting HHS mandate begins with Trump’s new order
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. Catholic bishops, praised the new executive order that "begins the process of alleviating the serious burden" of the contraceptive mandate.