Three experienced homeschooling moms share methods to help their children learn life lessons as they deal with struggles and setbacks.

John Clark shares this surprisingly simple advice from a holy priest on how to take a virtue that you already possess to new heights and change your life.

Dr Mitchell Kalpakgian dips into his hoard of literature and tales to help us understand what 'wisdom' is, and how we can tell what is essential and not.

With reference to ancient thinkers and common sense, Dr Mitchell Kalpakgian explores the value of foresight as a mark of wisdom.

by Heather Hryniewiecki Home education is becoming more attractive to people looking for an alternative to public and private school systems. With this being our second year of homeschooling, I ...

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | According to the worldly wise, the end justifies the means. If one achieves his ambitions, he need not be scrupulous or squeamish for doing what most people do—even if they are dishonest.

by Bl. Pope John Paul II | If it is true that by giving life parents share in God’s creative work, it is also true that by raising their children they become sharers in his paternal and at the same time maternal way of teaching. According to Saint Paul, God’s fatherhood is the primordial model of all fatherhood and motherhood in the universe (cf. Eph 3:14-15), and of human motherhood and fatherhood in particular.

by Pope John Paul II | Family prayer has for its very own object family life itself, which in all its varying circumstances is seen as a call from God and lived as a filial response to His call. Joys and sorrows, hopes and disappointments...

by Pius XI | The proper and immediate aim of Christian education is to cooperate with divine grace in forming the true and perfect Christian… For the true Christian must live a supernatural life in Christ and display it in all his actions. For precisely this reason, Christian education takes in the whole of human life, physical and spiritual, intellectual and moral, individual, domestic, and social.

A recent Seton graduate informed us that he had chosen Moses for his Confirmation patron. No, not THAT Moses! There was, in fact, another Moses from the same Egyptian locality who was as colorful a character as the great Patriarch. August 28th could well be termed the feast day for bad boys gone good...

Pope Leo XIII| This is a suitable moment for us to exhort especially heads of families to govern their households according to these precepts, and to educate their children from their earliest years. The family may be regarded as the cradle of civil society, and it is in great measure within the circle of family life that the destiny of the State is fostered.

What is Nature without the pied beauty of the four seasons? What is a home without paint, pictures, flowers, and interior decoration? What are human beings without tasteful, dignified clothing? ...

1655: Christ chose to be born and grow up in the bosom of the holy family of Joseph and Mary. The Church is nothing other than “the family of God.” ...

A person can live in a narrow world or a wider universe. He can live in a state of stagnation with no goals or ambitions, or keep his life in ...

The other day, I performed a task which is very common for the father of a large family—I took my trash to the dump. I am not someone who is ...

This piece is transcribed from a commencement speech delivered by the author. In Lucretius’s famous words, “Nothing can come from nothing.” A hundred or a thousand or a million times ...

How is it possible to communicate the beauty of marriage to the people of today? Today, to many young people and even to some who are not so young, definitiveness ...

“It’s knowing what to do with things that counts.”—Robert Frost, “At Woodward’s Gardens” In Frost’s poem, “At Woodward’s Gardens,” a boy visiting a zoo carries a magnifying glass. From his ...