Every January Catholics commemorate the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. This day is about both justice and celebration. It “celebrates the human drive to belong, to protect, to grow and to share in family, and the immeasurable importance of family in the lives of migrants and refugees in all corners of the world” (International [...]
Celebration is a wonderful part of life. And Christmas is a Christian feast! We all need to feast now and then; we all need to celebrate God’s blessings in our lives. But, I must admit, there’s a fine line between recognizing how blessed I am and feeling the guilt that comes with affluence. It’s hard to [...]
In a free web-based encyclopedia that anyone can edit the word family is defined as “a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence.” Did you notice the “or”? It’s a big word for being only two letters long. These three conditions seldom apply concurrently. I have a friend who envisages the ideal family [...]
As far as we need to go to eradicate violence within families, our distance from a good theology regarding domestic abuse is sometimes equally distant.
