To the Father With Only One Child, I know what happened. You went on Facebook last week and saw all the Catholic moms posting Simcha Fisher’s excellent essay “To the Mother With Only One Child.” You clicked on it. You thought it was beautiful. You appreciated the sympathetic words of the mother of nine children writing to a new mother. My child number nine is on the way, and I know I appreci... More

As the debate over remaking marriage in New York continues, Archbishop Timothy Dolan makes a plea and issues a reminder: Along with so many other people of faith – and of no particular religion at all – we Catholic pastors and citizens persevere, on this Father’s Day, in our prayers and efforts to defend the timeless definition of marriage as the loving, faithful union between one man and o... More