Vallombrosa Retreat Center, Menlo Park 7:00pm Friday – 3:30pm Sunday. This powerful healing retreat weekend invites participants with divorced or separated parents to move past their parents’ relationship to their own deepest origin and […]
Natural Family Planning is about much more than having — or not having — babies. It’s a way to live one’s personal vocation and grow in holiness. That’s the message of Magenta, a new NFP organization. And that’s the message […]
From promoting churches as wedding venues to encouraging Catholic families to invite single people over to witness the goodness of marriage, the LoveIRL summit sponsored by the California Catholic Conference gave youth and young adult ministers information and ideas to […]
….In my quite sheltered world, motherhood is clearly protected, nurtured, and honored on a very practical level. However, there are signs that we are letting the world’s dim view of motherhood get to us. Case in point: […]
Julia Ibarra didn’t need one more thing on her plate. Her busy life as the mom of seven was full already. So when she got the idea for a conference, a place for women in her community to “hear like-minded, […]
The share of young adults who say they have not had sex in the last year has skyrocketed in the past decade, while the virginity rate for young adult males has more than doubled, according to a recent data analysis. […]
The Holy Family forms the spiritual foundation of every family. A priest’s job is to direct attention to the joyful mysteries of the Holy Family and support families in his ministry. But many people rightly ask: “What does a priest, […]
One of the catchphrases of this election came from a moment 3 years ago when Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance mocked Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats he accused of being anti-family and called them “childless cat ladies.” […]
California Catholic bishops are launching a yearlong initiative to celebrate and encourage marriage and families through educational resources and parish-based resources, citing attacks on marriage and the decline of faith in the Eucharist as the reasons behind the initiative. […]
In a 2021 interview on the Tucker Carlson show, vice-presidential nominee JD Vance said that “we’re effectively run in this country, via the Democrats . . . by a bunch of childless cat ladies miserable at their own lives.” The […]
