Pope: Declining Birthrates Impoverish the Future
By Junno Arocho Esteves – The steady decline of birthrates across Europe and the West are signs of a new form of poverty that deprives humanity of...
Category: Family
Family and Citizenship
Born-frees now outnumber the born-agains — those born after 1994 and the before-’94s. The year 1994 was a pivotal point in our history, the year when the...
Knights’ documentary on St Joseph now available to view online for free
By CNS – The Knights of Columbus made its latest documentary, “St Joseph: Our Spiritual Father,” available to view for free at kofc.org to coincide with the...
The Domestic Worker’s Role in Education
Some people feature in our lives for no reason other than that we hear their names being uttered many times. One such name is Maggie Oewies. It...
Vatican Offers free e-book for Family Rosary
The Vatican Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life and the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network have a gift for families for the month of October, which is...
Passing on a Heritage of Love
As we celebrate Heritage Day on 24 September, Imelda Diouff looks at celebrating diversity and passing on what matter to the next generation. The “Rainbow Nation” appears...
The Need to be Pro-Family for a Stable Society
The pandemic has upended our lives. The global instruction to lockdown, create your safe space and social distancing, created a world of bubbles. Us and them! Who...
Pope Francis: 2022 World Meeting of Families will include local gatherings
Pope Francis called for local gatherings to be held across the globe at the same time as next year’s World Meeting of Families in Rome. “At past...
Becoming My Father
In a time of social and political uncertainty, Imelda Diouf draws from lessons from her father. I’ve become my father! My father was born in 1930. That...
Pope: The Myth that only Money, Success Matter is Gangrene for a Nation
By Carol Glatz – If families are not the priority of the present, there will be no future, Pope Francis said as he opened a meeting in...
Family Portraits: Sometimes Messy, But Grace-Filled
By Cindy Wooden – Sometimes the Catholic Church has “proposed a far too abstract and almost artificial theological ideal of marriage, far removed from the concrete situations...
Why Families are the Economy’s Building Block
In all the talk about economic policies, the family is usually ignored. Yet, it is the family that should be a basis for economic development, argues IMELDA DIOUF....
