by Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro Carámbula | We must understand well the gravity of the wound inflicted to marriage and to families by the tragic decision of the Supreme Court on June 26th, in the case Obergefell v. Hodges.

In college, students look forward to their opportunity to further their education and dig into their studies. The ‘Bosco Bundle’ is your own Faith-Aid Kit. “My son wants to attend ...

by Fr Frank Papa | On May 13, in the year 1917, Our Lady of Fatima appeared to three peasant, home-schooled children

by Fr. Edward C. Hathaway | In connecting Sunday with Easter, Saint John Paul II followed an ancient tradition in the Church.

We stand on the threshold of the holiest week of the year.  Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday, when we recall both Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem ...

The following is from a homily concerning the Immaculate Conception preached on December 8, 2014, by Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro Carámbula of Human Life International. The Blessed Mother first referred to ...

by Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro Carámbula | We should venerate the Holy Family during the whole year, but particularly during Advent and Christmas...

by a White Fathers Missionary | The public schools faltered but homeschools did not and education continued. In Bantu Africa, it really takes and needs a village to educate a child.

Several years ago, Father Robert Levis, from Erie, Pennsylvania, spoke at a Catholic Homeschooling Conference in the Washington, D.C. area. Father Levis was a frequent speaker at homeschooling conferences for ...

by Fr. Paul Scalia | We are not only to receive the Eucharist, we are to imitate the Eucharist. All who receive Christ in the Eucharist should imitate...

In the teaching of the Church, there are only three original societies or communities on Earth: the family, the Church, and the state. … According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church: “The family is the original cell of social life. It is the natural society in which husband and wife are called to give themselves in love, and in the gift of life."

The primary role of parents in their children’s education, especially in their religious education, comes from the importance of children in Christian marriage. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says ...

by Fr. Robert Skeris | The Gospel of the eight Beatitudes is surely one of the best-loved passages in all of Holy Writ, and deservedly so. For the fact is that men of all climes and times have regarded the Beatitudes as the ladder, so to speak, or the staircase by which the saints ascend to Heaven.

One of the ends of marriage is the procreation and education of children. Procreation has gotten a good deal of attention in the recent history of the Church, but education is often of less interest.

Pope Francis: "There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously. It is what my much-loved predecessor, Benedict XVI, called the ‘tyranny of relativism,’ which allows everyone to create his own criterion and endangers the coexistence of peoples. But there is no true peace without truth.”

I have known Catholic families and I know how much light they were in the 1950’s. One family I knew as a seven-year-old boy touched me by the very fact that the father of the family led the Grace of the meal with the Sign of the Cross and the prayer asking for God’s blessing. A small thing, but small things speak to pure hearts.

by Fr. Pablo Straub | At first it seems contradictory that there would be similarity between those who marry and those who go into a monastery or the priesthood. Can there be any two things more unlike?

These have been a tough couple of decades for fathers in particular, and men in general. [People] attack men’s identity and undermine the whole idea of fatherhood. In the process, women and children are hurt, families are damaged, and our understanding of God Himself becomes confused. Let me outline three criticisms, or problems, which make our times especially hard for fathers.

by Fr John Hardon | Home education means the teaching by the parents at home, by both parents. A father’s contribution to the home education of his children is indispensable.

by Fr. Robert Lange | After hearing literally thousands of confessions of grade-school children, I must admit that many young people are poorly trained in understanding the nature of sin and of being aware of their own sinfulness. The lessons must come from committed parents.