Update from the Hutch: Pope Francis Praises Large Families
For all the cyber sturm und drang yesterday surrounding Pope Francis comment that Catholics don’t have to reproduce like rabbits to be faithful to the Church, many people forget that only a couple of...
View ArticlePope Francis says many children are, “Orphans within the family.”
In his general audience, Pope Francis is asserting the importance of family life, repeating his exhortation to parents, and particularly fathers, to “waste time with your children.” One even more...
View ArticlePope Francis and Spanking: 4 Things to Consider
People know that, as a Catholic Parenting author and family therapist, I encourage parents to eschew corporal punishment in favor of more effective methods discipline that are more respectful of the...
View ArticleChildren Raised by Gay Parents WORSE OFF Than Other Kids, New Major Study Shows.
From Mercator.net via the British Journal of Education, Society and Behavioral Science. Fresh research has just tossed a grenade into the incendiary issue of same-sex parenting. Writing in the British...
View ArticleHelping Your Kids Deal with Anger
Parents often struggle to deal effectively with their children’s anger. We either tend to respond by coddling them when they tantrum or shutting them down. Of course, neither response is effective...
View ArticleAttachment Parenting vs. Spiritual Detachment: Two Great Things That Go Great...
A guest blog by More2Life Radio Contributor, Kim Cameron-Smith An acquaintance and I were recently chatting when the subject of parenting came up. I explained that I am an “attachment-minded parent”....
View Article5 Ways Catholic Families Stand Out–Does YOUR Family Do These Things?
In anticipation of my wife and I speaking at the upcoming World Meeting of Families, I’ll be contributing a monthly feature at the Our Sunday Visitor Daily Take. Here is my first installment that...
View ArticleLosing My Religion: Why People Are REALLY Leaving the Church (It’s not what...
A new report from Pew Research shows that religion is losing ground as more people drop out of church. According to the report…. The shrinking numbers of Christians and their loss of market share is...
View ArticleEscaping the Blame Game: 5 Steps to Reclaiming Your Power
When things go wrong, we love having someone to blame. It’s a seductive game that makes us think that blaming others will give us control, but in reality, as long as we play the blame game–whether...
View ArticleMission Possible: 5 Keys to Raising Faithful Kids
What are your chances of raising faithful kids? Answer these 5 questions! For the Catholic parent, there is no more important task than communicating our faith to our children. That doesn’t just mean...
View ArticleFor Father’s Day, 15 Reasons Dads Matter (#15 Will Shock You!)
This weekend is Fathers’ Day, so I thought it would be good to take some time to remind us all how important dads are. Check out these great dad facts! (Teaser: I saved the most surprising fact for...
View ArticleCatholic Families in Crisis: New Study Finds Catholic Homes Are Spiritually...
The Church teaches that family life is the basic unit of society and that as the family goes, so goes the Church. If that’s true, then we should all buckle our seatbelts, because we’re in for a bumpy...
View ArticleNew Study Quantifies Spiritual Health Crisis in Catholic Families
My latest article for OSV’s Daily Take If your child came home from school with a test grade of 22 percent would you be concerned? How about 17 percent or 13 percent? Sadly, new research by the Center...
View ArticleFamily Spirituality: So What? Who Cares? & What’s In It For You?
If the idea of “family spirituality” sounds indescribably boring, oddly mysterious, or like a total luxury (and not in a good way) then you’re not alone. A recent study by Holy Cross Family Ministries...
View ArticleProtecting YOUR Family’s “Heart Health”
Your family’s spirituality is the heart of your home. Do you know how to protect and nurture it? Are you attending to your family’s heart health? Your family’s spiritual well-being represents the...
View ArticleCONFIRMED–HISTORIC Record Breaking Attendance at 2015 World Meeting of Families
Today on More2Life Radio, we were blessed by a visit from Dr. Mary Beth Yount, the Director of Content and Programming at the World Meeting of Families. In addition to telling our listeners about the...
View ArticleYou CAN Raise Faithful Kids: Discover the SCIENCE of Passing on the FAITH!
A review of Discovering God Together: The Catholic Guide to Raising Faithful Kids Dr. Greg and Lisa Popcak’s new book, Discovering God Together: The Catholic Guide to Raising Faithful Kids will make...
View Article“Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome”–An Autopsy on the Death of Religious Faith
Reba Riley’s memoir, Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: A Memoir of Humor and Healing describes her loss of religious faith in her early 20′s and her subsequent attempt to assemble a meaningful spiritual...
View ArticleWorld Meeting of Families Speakers Assert, “Family Life is an Activity, NOT...
“We need to rediscover the gift of family life; that family life is its own activity, not an accessory. We can’t simply “have” a family but work on everything else in our lives. Instead, we need to...
View ArticleWorld Meeting of Families: So What? Who Cares? What’s In It for Me?
The World Meeting of Families (WMOF) is an international event occurring every three years since it’s inauguration in 1994. Convened by the Pontifical Council for the Family which was founded by St....
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