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Will there be peace at home?

Peace, relatively speaking: Advice on how to deal with the presence (or absence) of family members at Christmas. By Gail Besse.

Wii puts 21st-century spin on family games

Essay Wii puts 21st century spin on family games Mom finds it encourages social interaction -- and lets her show off her boxing skills

Weighty issues to address as a family

Our Takes: Weighty issues to address as a family

Tug o' war with media

By Teresa Tomeo. New report reveals startling statistics in the battle between family time and technology

Truth about families

By Greg Erlandson. Visit from relatives reminds OSV publisher that God meant for us to know community

Trend: More grandparents raising grandchildren

By Bill Dodds. Scrambling for resources, including diocesan, to manage second installment of child rearing

The urgency of supporting our country's fathers

Free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Society needs to reassess the importance of fathers for the physical, psychological, intellectual and spiritual wellbeing of the next generation.

The best -- and worst -- presents for Catholics

By Woodeene Koenig-Bricker

Strangers together

This column has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. Finding a way this holiday season to make family gatherings opportunities for intimacy, not angst

Staying on course

Catholic schools must overcome threats of rising costs, shifting populations and competition from charter schools

Sharing their maternal love

By Maryann Eidemiller. Three women of special-needs children extend their nurturing to others in need

September 22, Tuesday Weekday

Our Sunday Visitor's My Daily Visitor, reading, feast of the day, saint, Bible verse, meditation, and prayer.

Same-sex marriage: a trend to sweep the nation?

By Gerald Korson. Despite losses, the fight for traditional matrimony still eclipses homosexual unions

This article has free access for all visitors. By Brian Caulfield. Despite society's message that they're expendable, dads must stay true to their vocations by developing ways to love and lift up their children

Pro-family advocates ready for U.N. assault

Contrary to the organization's founding principles, some delegates push for abortion and gay-marriage support in treaties

Priest-chef cooks up recipes for stronger families

By Emily Stimpson. Breaking bread together is a powerful expression of love, says cookbook author and TV host

Pluses, minuses in religion sections

Our Takes: Brief salient observations and opinions on the news.

Parents need to limit kids' screen time

Families can try fasting from all electronic media during Advent, Lent, expert advises

October 30, Friday Weekday

Our Sunday Visitor's My Daily Visitor, reading, feast of the day, saint, Bible verse, meditation, and prayer.

New book tackles misconceptions about adoption

By Eddie O'Neill. Clinical psychologist -- and adoptive dad of 10 -- gives straight answers to would-be parents

Multigenerational households make comeback

By Emily Stimpson. Immigration influx, rising cost of care among reasons behind trend

Mother of revolutions

Editorial

More Holy Family, less your family

Our Takes

Military families find ways to share holiday joys

By Scott Alessi. Connecting with loved ones and attending Christmas Mass are cherished gifts for Catholics stationed overseas

Mending marriage

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. Couples themselves, with the support of communities, including the parish, must do the heavy lifting.

Making most of our encounter with Pope Benedict

By Helen Avare. While it may be hard to hear, we can learn from what he has to say about family life, our economic strife and the cost of assimilation

Making Lent more meaningful

This article has free access for all visitors. Many families develop traditions that can be carried into rest of year.

Making Advent meaningful at any stage of life

By Cory and Heidi Busse. Concrete ways young families, single people and married couples can await Christ’s coming

Living example: 'My yoke is easy, my burden light'

Openers by John Norton

July 8, Wednesday Weekday

Our Sunday Visitor's My Daily Visitor, reading, feast of the day, saint, Bible verse, meditation, and prayer.

July 21, Tuesday Weekday

Our Sunday Visitor's My Daily Visitor, reading, feast of the day, saint, Bible verse, meditation, and prayer.

In marriage, three's a crowd

Our salient comments on a Sioux Indian abortion law, mobile spirituality for Catholics on the go and Polygamy

In Focus: Monsignor gives support for family

Monsignor Joseph Slepicka provides support for the family of 9/11 victim Tom Burnett, Jr., with whom he had a long-time friendship

Importance of Dad

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. If you want your children to grow close to the Lord and to keep their faith, then you have to live it in front of them.

Hope for the family

Editorial

Helping family and friends in financial trouble

By Phil Lenahan. Love, charity and discretion create right attitude to help those in need

Grateful for daily graces

By Heidi Busse. Thanksgiving is filled with messages of the Gospels -- breaking bread together, expressing gratitude and taking care of those in need

From Here to Eternity

Liturgy and Life column by Monsignor Joseph M. Champlin. Preparations for death include the dying, the family and the parish.

Forgiving one priest's killer

Family, friends and parish asked for leniency for drunken driver who took the life of New York Msgr. William Costello saying that's what he'd do.

Five reasons why Catholics should care about food

This article has free access for all visitors. By Zoë Romanowsky. What and how we eat will change us and the world we live in -- for better or worse

Finding meaning in Mass

The key is to get young people invested in the life of their parish

Finding a space for families in the digital world

Openers

Family treasures

By Lorene Hanley Duquin. Grandparents are 'precious resource' in passing down the faith

Family time, unplugged

By Teresa Tomeo. Weekly media-free night could sober up our families from over-saturation of technology

Family ties, faith strengthen mental illness

If you have feelings of worthlessness or guilt, remind yourself that in Christ you are offered not only forgiveness, but also a gift of glory.

Family matters

Editorial

Family campfire therapy

Family camping trip allows time to unplug, walk and talk, hold hands, tell stories and simply be.

Everyday heroics are what counts

By Robert P. Lockwood. Heroism is ordinary people doing ordinary things faithfully, even if it gets them wet jeans

Defending discourse

Editorial

December 17, Thursday Advent Weekday

Our Sunday Visitor's My Daily Visitor for December 17, reading, feast of the day, saint, Bible verse, meditation, and prayer.

Cutting the apron strings

By Woodeene Koenig-Bricker. The advice of one mother and son on how to survive the college years

Church: We work to live, not live to work

Family Medical Leave Act claims spiking 300 percent since 1990s and challenging the relationship of job to home

Christmas faith works

By Msgr. Owen F. Campion. Yuletide recollections of friends and family whose lives radiated trust in God's love

Christ miraculously feeds

In the Eucharist, he fulfills the promise of a family of God foreshadowed by Melchizedek.

Catholic startup takes on Netflix, Blockbuster

Online DVD rental company offers films safe for the whole family

Another one bites dust

A family values poll takes it on the chin. So what else is new in our fallen, human world?

An ice storm led to an Advent Unplugged

Openers by John Norton

Affirming teenage girls

By Teresa Tomeo. We must encourage open communication and teach values and critical thinking skills

Affirming teenage girls

By Teresa Tomeo. We must encourage open communication and teach values and critical thinking skills

Adults suspended in perpetual adolescence?

By Emily Stimpson. With fewer Americans taking responsibility for their actions, family life, economy suffer

A true pioneer of natural family planning

OSV reflects on the positive contributions John Billings made to natural family planning.

A Saintly Eight

Who were St. Werburgh and her family?

A proposal: Computer games can be beneficial for children

This article has free access for all visitors. By Eugene Gan. A Catholic professor puts his theory to the test with his 5-year-old son

10 ways to be a great Catholic dad

This article has free access for all visitors. By Cory Busse. Tips (and reminders) to help men raise their children in the faith