Familia - Omnes

A Catholic perspective on current events

Mariolina Ceriotti: Training to be a parent, day after day

Italian child neuropsychiatrist and psychotherapist Mariolina Ceriotti reflects on parenthood in today's world in her new book Parents and children. The paths of parenthood.

Giovanni Tridente

G. K. Chesterton: Prophet of the Family

The centenary of G. K. Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism is a propitious occasion to approach this brilliant writer, a polemicist of sharp intelligence and a devastating critic of fatuous cultural fashions from the perspective of Christian realism. He devoted many pages to marriage and the family. He frequently highlighted the glaring contradictions of modernity in the understanding of this vital institution for the person and society.

Paloma López Campos

Juan de Dios LarrúLearning to love means learning to promise".

"Love, to which the Apostle Paul dedicated a hymn in the first letter to the Corinthians - "patient" love., "helpful", and that "everything supports" (1 Co 13, 4. 7)-, is certainly demanding.. Its beauty lies precisely in the fact that it is demanding, because in this way it constitutes the true good of man and radiates it also to others" (Letter to Families "Gratissimam Sane" of St. John Paul II, 1994).

Paloma López Campos

Thousands of families defend life in Madrid

Several tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Madrid this Sunday to defend the right to life and the dignity of every human being, from conception to natural death. Madrid was dyed green with entire families, including grandparents and many babies in strollers or chairs.

Maria Jose Atienza

Suzanne Aho (UN)We must disseminate the Casablanca Declaration".

Suzanne Aho, former Minister of Health of Togo, has participated as an independent observer in the signing of the Casablanca Declaration for the universal abolition of surrogacy.

Maria Jose Atienza

Samuel's parents, facing pressure to abort: "Don't give up".

This is the story of a young evangelical couple, Alejandra and Benjamin, she Costa Rican, he German, who refused to follow the insistent medical advice to abort, and had Samuel, with Edwards syndrome, who lived only 6 hours outside the womb. On the eve of the March for Life on Sunday the 12th, they tell Omnes.

Paloma López Campos