infertility
What good is faith when your fertility treatments aren’t working?
By Amy Klein — August 3, 2020
(RNS) — Some of the biggest faith-based challenges of infertility may be existing in a family-centered community.
The future of the church may belong to the fecund, but not the nuclear family
By Holly Stallcup — June 18, 2020
(RNS) — The church’s focus on the family, renewed in a recent article by Kevin DeYoung, pushes to the margins those whose lives don’t include bearing and rearing children.
Women wishing to be moms often missing from Mother’s Day worship
By Adelle M. Banks — May 11, 2017
(RNS)The stories of women of the Bible giving birth in old age after decades without children have become sources of inspiration for some and pain for others.
Believers pray to ‘Our Lady of the Milk’ in this ancient Bethlehem spot where Mary nursed Jesus
By Michele Chabin — December 19, 2014
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (RNS) “We estimate that in the past dozen years at least 3,000 babies have been born to mothers who prayed in the grotto,” said the Franciscan brother who guards it.
Italy’s Catholic bishops denounce court ruling that OK’d sperm donors
By Josephine McKenna — June 11, 2014
ROME (RNS) "None of us are the masters of anyone else, not even parents with respect to their own children," said the secretary-general of the Italian bishops’ conference, Monsignor Nunzio Galantino.
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