The following summary of the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia on Love in the Family has been published by Vatican Radio. It is not by chance that Amoris Laetitia (AL), “The Joy of Love”, the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation “on read more
Christians . . should actively promote the value of marriage and the family. “Christians, redeeming the present time and distinguishing eternal realities from their changing expressions, should actively promote the values of marriage and the familread more
We cannot live without forgiving one another, or at least we cannot live well, especially in the family. Every day we wrong one another. … What we are asked, however, is to heal immediately the wounds we cause, to reweave the threads that we break in thread more
We all know how important prayer is, yet it seems so difficult to find time for it. Pope Francis has been appealing to parents to give time and attention to teach their children how to pray, yet he recognises the challenges which parents face. “We kread more
The Importance of Parent Teachers by Michael McGrath This article first appeared in the Scottish Catholic Observer on 4th April 2014. In almost 40 years of my professional life in Catholic education I have always been aware of the vital role which parentsread more
This article first appeared in the Scottish Catholic Observer on 21st February 2014 to mark the start of Catholic Education Week. Education is all about shedding light on things that we don’t know or understand, making clear and obvious what, until now,read more
This article first appeared in the Scottish Catholic Observer on 7th February 2014. Did you know that Catholics in Scotland belong to “an outpost of a foreign power – the Church of Rome”? And did you also realise that the Catholic Church’s legalread more
This article first appeared in the Scottish Catholic Observer in January 2014. As I write this article in the days before Christmas 2013, I am caught up as usual in the last hours of frenzied preparations: buying and wrapping gifts, opening cards from friread more
This is an excerpt of an address given by Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday 2nd July 2011 to a group of pilgrims from the Italian Diocese of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti. It addreses the significance of the family’s reponsibility for Christaread more
Report Calls for Defense of Young People Sexualized images and media messages pushing licentious behavior are a threat to young people, says a report published by the U.K.’s Home Office. An independent psychologist, Dr. Linda Papadopoulos, was comread more
Benedict XVI Recalls Importance of Marriage and Family By William Newton TRUMAU, Austria, FEB. 24, 2010 (Zenit.org).- In his Feb. 8 address to the Pontifical Council for the Family, Benedict XVI commented on the decision of the council to dedicate their 1read more
Zenit reports that the aspiration to walk down the aisle to marry the man or woman of one’s dreams continues to be a very common one, even though the growing number of cohabiting couples may seem to prove the contrary. Evidence of support for commitread more
Families have changed in the last several decades. Instead of getting married, many people are living together or ‘cohabiting’. Some of these cohabitating couples eventually get married. Many of them break up. Very few stay together as cohabitants forread more
Marriage is not as widespread as it used to be, but it is still an ideal to which most people aspire, and it still provides the surest foundation for strong and healthy families. Something about marriage itself—perhaps the public as well as private coread more
The duty of parents toward their children is tersely expressed in a short phrase relating to the primary purpose of marriage — “the education of children.” The duty is certainly more easily expressed than understood or fulfilled. The obligatread more
Turn off the TV. Forget Facebook. Just give your kids some time In our increasingly fractured lives, is it a surprise the happiest families are those you see playing together? Henry PorterObserver, Sunday October 14, 2007A society that fails its children read more
