New app helps track best times to conceive
NFP on your smartphone? Sounds like it: Glow, the fertility tracking iOS app co-founded by Max Levchin, is making its debut in the app store today. The app was first introduced earlier this summer by...
View ArticleJudge: no, you can’t name your child “Messiah”
Details, from AP: A judge in Tennessee changed a 7-month-old boy’s name to Martin from Messiah, saying the religious name was earned by one person and “that one person is Jesus Christ.” Child Support...
View ArticleMust-see video: what does your child really want for Christmas?
This comes from IKEA in Spain —a wake-up call to every parent this Christmas.
View ArticleAt General Audience, Pope Francis speaks of the dignity of fathers
“St. Joseph with the Infant Jesus” by Guido Reni (c. 1620) via Wikipedia From Vatican Radio: Pope Francis called on fathers to be present in the lives of their children pointing out that the absence...
View ArticleGreat moments in parenting: baby bottles that look like beer bottles
From The Los Angeles Times: Babies don’t drink beer, and for good reason. But if you’d like for all the parents in your Mommy & Me class to give you dirty looks — and question your sanity — you can...
View ArticleOut-of-wedlock births falling: “People are just not having the kids”
From The New York Times: Single parenthood was on a “mysterious and alarming rise,” becoming a “huge problem,” according to a 2013 article in the Atlantic. The lawyer defending same-sex marriage bans...
View ArticleA priest’s wife tells her story
Over at CNEWA, we’ve just posted online the Summer edition of our award-winning magazine, ONE. The issue features a fascinating glimpse into the life of a married Orthodox priest in suburban Chicago...
View ArticleMost popular baby names for 2013
From the Social Security Administration, via USA TODAY, here they are: Noah ended Jacob’s 14-year reign as the top baby name for boys in 2013, while Sophia was the most popular name for girls for the...
View ArticleMust-see video: “How to Dad,” a great new ad from Cheerios
Smart, funny and utterly winning. One blogger writes: It is well shot and the guy playing the dad is fantastic. Also, it is funny without being condescending, and that is hard. So often, humor in...
View ArticleCrescat: the big issue the bishops at the synod overlooked
This was, in her estimation, a glaring sin of omission—and I think she’s absolutely correct. What was missing? Single parents—perhaps the most neglected demographic in the Catholic Church, and one...
View ArticleWhat we have come to: little girls dropping the f-bomb
From USA TODAY: “What is more offensive — a little girl saying (expletive) or the (expletive) unequal and sexist way society treats girls and women?” That’s the question five little girls in princess...
View ArticleWhat’s the #1 reason teens keep their faith as adults?
It’s the family, stupid. Details: The holy grail for helping youth remain religiously active as young adults has been at home all along: parents. Mothers and fathers who practice what they preach and...
View ArticleOut-of-wedlock births falling: “People are just not having the kids”
From The New York Times: Single parenthood was on a “mysterious and alarming rise,” becoming a “huge problem,” according to a 2013 article in the Atlantic. The lawyer defending same-sex marriage bans...
View ArticleA priest’s wife tells her story
Over at CNEWA, we’ve just posted online the Summer edition of our award-winning magazine, ONE. The issue features a fascinating glimpse into the life of a married Orthodox priest in suburban Chicago...
View ArticleWhy do kids leave the Church? These Catholic moms offer some answers.
From America: Over 500 respondents took part in our informal survey on Catholic motherhood, conducted via America’s email newsletter and social media platforms. Twenty-five percent told America that...
View ArticleBishop approves alternative to Boy Scouts as a Catholic apostolate
The following press release landed in my mailbox a short time ago: Thousands of young men and their fathers across the country found their prayers answered yesterday when Most Rev. Michael F. Olson,...
View ArticleDressing a child as Hitler for Halloween?
Is this a trend?: A junior high special education teacher claims that her son’s shocking Hitler costume — which included a brush mustache and a Nazi swastika on a red armband — was merely the result of...
View Article‘By the Grace of God’: The Story of a Marriage You Just Have to See
From the Archdiocese of Washington YouTube page comes this stirring testimonial from a couple marking 45 years of marriage, Sharon and Lee Johnson. Just watch.
View Article‘I’m sorry, Mom, but I don’t think I’ll be Catholic when I’m an adult…’
Dear Church: can’t we do better than this? This cri de coeur comes from my blogging colleague Rebecca Frech: Before our children were even old enough to attend them, we heard of the beauty of...
View Article‘God put the wiggle in children — don’t feel you have to suppress it in God’s...
This morning, I saw a post on Facebook from a priest, describing how a parishioner apologized to him for her children making so much noise during Mass. The priest didn’t mind at all, and wanted to make...
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