How should a mother recover and rest postpartum? How can she do that through the lens of her faith? In every culture until modern times, there have been cultural practices, routines, and ritual surrounding the postpartum time. Humanity has always recognized, to varying degrees, that this time was critical for mothers and babies to heal, bond, rest, recover, and establish healthy feeding for the baby. Modern American culture, highly influenced by the industrial revolution, all

God’s love for us is so infinite and unconditional that He gave up his power and might, and came to us as a vulnerable Child. This is how...

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During a recent virtual consult with a young mother, she and I briefly discussed the idea of birth as "empowering" and what that means....

We approach Christmas and much of the world pauses, if just for a moment, to recognize one holy birth. Be it imperfectly or even a far...

In the Basilica of Sant'Agostino in Rome there stands near the entrance a towering statue of the mother of Jesus. This representation of...