The Joy of the Truth

I saw a horrible episode of Law & Order today. An African-American lawyer defended an African-American woman's custody of her biological son based on the argument that adopting him to a Caucasian couple to be raised as a Caucasian, was equivalent to...

Our diocesen newspaper ran a story this spring about Edith George, a foster mother of 62 infants over the past 33 years. Edith had a special talent with babies, so much so that she received the nickname "the Baby Whisperer." Edith's love for babies flows...

Ellen Goodman begins her diatribe against the ban on partial-birth abortion by referring to a historical Supreme Court case (under Justice Joseph P. Bradley) that ruled that women are unfit for public life because working outside of the home is contrary...

What do adoption and Natural Family Planning have in common? They are both methods for planning one's family and for receiving the gift of children. However, the other thing they have in common is the requirement for a good intention in order for their...

We were recently chosen to adopt a baby girl, our first child. In our travels to pick her up, I found myself meditating on the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary. It struck me how much our own experience of expanding the love of our family parallels the way...