A writer reflects on how her crowded childhood shaped her parenting and why big families still matter in modern life.

The largest Catholic congregation in the U.S. is now in California's Central Valley. It serves more than 14,000 families. Its size correlates with the dramatically falling number of Catholic priests.

As a mission and ethics leader at a large Catholic health system, I encounter patients and families at the end of life. Sadly, many unconscious patients and others no longer capable of making ...

Parishes that have stood on their own for decades or longer will be grouped into “families ... Catholic schools, like some parishes, were built decades ago and are no longer located where large ...

Deacon Louis McHale will be one of five new priests ordained by Cardinal Robert W. McElroy for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese ...

Moving to downtown Bayonne on Humphreys Avenue placed the family in the middle of one of the most Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese of Newark. It had a history of large Irish Catholic families ...

The Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation is giving $150 million to the Big Shoulders Fund over the next 10 years to funnel into academic and infrastructure improvements at 20 Catholic schools ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Big Shoulders Fund, a nonprofit serving Catholic ...