Tag: Marriage and Family

More than 250 parents, couples, and individuals gathered for an evening with Catholic power duo Matt and Cameron Fradd, who captivated their Sydney audience with a blend of comedy, wisdom and heartfelt stories drawn from their experience as parents and popular Catholic personalities.

How it started, and how it’s going. After celebrating their wedding day with the Tyburn nuns in Riverstone last year Jacinta and Alan Yousif returned to have their daughter Aleena baptised in the convent chapel.

Litany of the Home, an online mission developed by Beck Hanrahan and Steph Philippou, seeks to provide Catholic mothers with Australian-based content to support them in building a life of prayer and virtue, and provide resources for raising children in the life of the church.

In relationship arguments, “You can either be right, or you can be one, but you can’t be both.” Pride is the enemy of unity, and can keep ugly arguments going indefinitely, write Francine and Byron Pirola.

In 2000, around 8,900 Catholics were married by a priest, in a church. By 2021, it was down to around 3,300. These and other stats tell a story that might horrify you, but Philippa Martyr sees things differently...

There is no worse message for a man to receive than the lie that his life is meaningless and his personhood is of no account. Yet that is all atheism has to offer a man. Christ’s offer is not just true, but is also good. Only God tells us that it is always good for men to be men, writes Fr Joshua Miechels

There’s a well-known recipe for making a mass going adult Catholic: two Catholic parents who both practice their faith. So by analysing the church’s marriage data since 1970, we can get a good idea of what’s caused the drop in Mass attendance, writes Philippa Martyr.

So many marriages break down, not from conflict but because they just drift apart. We mistakenly think marriages don’t take energy because our love felt so effortless at the beginning—but like all things, relationships are subject to entropy.