Family Issues

Catholic Education Week 2013
Bishop Joseph Devine with pupils of Our Lady of Good Aid Cathedral Primary School
Caritas Awards 2012
A number of young people who have gained the Caritas Award dropped in on a rehearsal for the big event taking place on the afternoon of Saturday 2nd June in the Clyde Auditorium Glasgow.
Launch of Catholic Education Week 2012
Pupils of Taylor High School and Our Lady & St Francis School, Carfin
This is Our faith
Launch of This is Our Faith
St John Bosco Primary School, Erskine
Pupils from St John Bosco Primary School, Erskine reading prayers at Mass in St Francis Xavier, Carfin
St Stephen’s Primary, Sighthill, Glasgow
Pupils of St Stephen’s Primary, Sighthill, Glasgow enjoying some out door leasons
Papal Visit - England
The Big Assembly with the Holy Father, Twickenham 17th September
Papal Visit - Scotland
Girls from Taylor High School, Motherwell, singing their own song “Faith” before the Papal Mass at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow on 16th September 2010.
Papal Visit - England
Scottish pupils addressing the Holy Father at the Big Assembly, Twickenham 17th September.
Papal Visit - Scotland
The St Ninian’s Day Parade, Edinburgh, 16th September 2010

Contains articles relationg to family, role of parents etc.

Parents, be the first witnesses of the faith

This is an excerpt of an address given by Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday 2nd July 2011 to a group of pilgrims from the Italian Diocese of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti. It addreses the significance of the family's reponsibility for Christai...

Dangerous Messages

Report Calls for Defense of Young People

Sexualized images and media messages pushing licentious behavior are a threat to young people, says a report published by the U.K.'s Home Office. An independent psychologist was commissioned by the Home Office to examine the impact of a highly sexualized culture in the context of the British government's efforts to reduce violence against women.

Relativism: The Erosion of Human Rights

In his address on 8th February 2010 to the Pontifical Council for the Family, Benedict XVI commented on the decision of the council to dedicate their 19th Plenary Session to a discussion of "The Rights of Childhood." This theme was chosen to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, an international convention that sets out the social, economic, and cultural rights of children

Dreams of wedded bliss not dead

Zenit reports that the aspiration to walk down the aisle to marry the man or woman of one's dreams continues to be a very common one, even though the growing number of cohabiting couples may seem to prove the contrary.

The Facts Behind Cohabitation

Families have changed in the last several decades. Instead of getting married, many people are living together or ‘cohabiting’. Some of these cohabitating couples eventually get married. Many of them break up. Very few stay together as cohabitants for long. Is cohabitation a good alternative to marriage? Is it a good way to ‘test out’ the relationship? Many researchers have looked into these questions.

Does Marriage Matter?

Marriage is not as widespread as it used to be, but it is still an ideal to which most people aspire, and it still provides the surest foundation for strong and healthy families. Something about marriage itself—perhaps the public as well as private commitment it requires or the stability it encourages—seems to encourage husbands, wives and children to support each other and work together to build lasting families whose positive contribution is felt not only by the family members, but also by the larger society.

A parent's duty to form personality

The duty of parents toward their children is tersely expressed in a short phrase relating to the primary purpose of marriage — "the education of children." The duty is certainly more easily expressed than understood or fulfilled. The obligation is clear as set forth; but what does it mean, and how is it to be accomplished? Fr. Hayden attempts to answer this question by explaining the needs and conflicts of children as well as the different stages of childhood development.