Contains articles relationg to family, role of parents etc.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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