Catholic families

Couple’s model for living faith at home could change Catholicism one family at a time

By Claire Giangravé — July 7, 2022
(RNS) — Gregory and Lisa Popcak want to empower the laity by sacralizing the small things families do every day.

At World Meeting of Families, Catholic leaders address sex abuse scandal, LGBT inclusion

By Christine A. Scheller — August 24, 2018
DUBLIN (RNS) — A range of challenges to family life in the 21st century — from poor communication and alienation to sexual misconduct and the treatment of LGBT persons — dominated conversation at the Catholic Church’s World Meeting of Families this week.

‘Amoris Laetitia’ revisited

By Thomas Reese — October 10, 2017
(RNS) — The document encouraged the church to meet people where they are and then accompany them on their journey toward God. But who is going to do this accompanying?

Pope Francis: Put away technology, enjoy family dinners

By Rosie Scammell — November 11, 2015
(RNS) Sitting around the table helps measure the health of relationships, the pontiff said: “If in a family there’s something that doesn’t work, or a hidden wound, at the table it's understood immediately.”

Most US Catholics are fine with nontraditional families

By Cathy Lynn Grossman — September 2, 2015
(RNS) When Pope Francis meets thousands of U.S. Catholic families this month, he'll find them excited to see him -- but not necessarily in line with many Catholic teachings on family life.

Fox News reporter Greg Burke gets a new assignment: Vatican PR

By Tim Townsend — June 25, 2012

ST. LOUIS (RNS) In his new job as the Vatican's senior communications adviser, Fox News reporter Greg Burke, 52, will be counseling Pope Benedict XVI and his closest staff on how to better project the Catholic Church's image to the rest of the world. By Tim Townsend.

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