In a world where religion is given a bad press, Sarah Johnson provides a practical ‘toolkit’ for parents who want to give their children a happy and healthy childhood where God is honoured. She shows how faith brings perspective to life and provides a sane and viable alternative to atheistic [...]

For Eileen and Brian Foley, their daughter Catherine has been a blessing and a joy, in spite of her severe health problems.

Fr Patrick Rogers CP is director of the popular, one-day “Together” marriage preparation courses  (www.together.ie) held about 15 times per year. He says the Church needs to take account of where young people see themselves. “It is not enough,” he says, “to appeal to the faith of our fathers [...]

Helen Doherty learns that to be a good mother one doesn’t have to be perfect, just good enough.

What we hand on to our children is not so much doctrines or practices as the capacity to love. Paul Andrews SJ has a sympathetic understanding of how parents hand on their faith to their children and what’s important.