In this issue
U.S. Catholic ∙ Vol. 74, No. 4 ∙ April 2009
Show and tell: Six ways to teach your children the faith
You're nourishing their bodies and clothing their backs, but how are you feeding their spirits? Veteran mom CATHERINE O'CONNELL-CAHILL distills a six-point plan to keep family and faith together.
SOUNDING BOARD
Let them just eat cake
What will the stylish 6-year-old sport at the next birthday bash? In Sounding Board LINDA ZWICKY wonders if parents have driven the limo completely around the bend in a bid to keep up with the Jones' theme party. In Feedback readers are happy to serve as over-the-top birthday party poopers.
EXPERT WITNESS
Parental guidance suggested
A recent survey of teens suggests that what your kids don't know about their faith is a heck of a lot. In Expert Witness youth ministry expert SEAN REYNOLDS says your kids may have a lot to learn, but the good news is they can and want to learn it---from you.
FEATURES
Tough love
God may not give us more than we can bear, the saying goes, but parents of developmentally different children might wish he would take his thumb off the scale sometimes. KRISTIN PETERSON reviews the everyday challenges of these far-from-ordinary families.
ESSAYS/OPINIONS
Crying uncle
He came, he saw, he was completely conquered. FATHER RICHARD G. MALLOY, S.J., gets a humbling lesson in the tiny torments of parenthood when he fills in as father.
Who do we think we are?
How will they know we are Christians? JAMES CARROLL sketches the shaky background of Catholic identity against a sometimes troubling historical record. It's not always a pretty picture.
Feet first
Planning to get your Triduum off on the right foot? Or is it the left? In Practicing Catholic GABE HUCK explains why Holy Thursday's washing of the feet offers a profound and gentle redirection to Ressurrection.
A Cinderella story
In Wise Guides GINNY KUBITZ Moyer admires St. Germain Cousin's model of spiritual endurance in the face of a childhood---complete with evil stepmother, personal afflictions, and lots of housework---that only the Brothers Grimm could love.
DEPARTMENTS
Editors' Note
You May Be Right - LETTERS
Signs of the Times - NEWS
Catholic Tastes - HUMOR
Glad You Asked: WHO ARE THE LEFEBVRITES?
Culture in context: REVIEWS
At Home with Our Faith
Eye of the Beholder - Jerry Bleem, O.F.M.
COLUMNS
The Examined Life - Bryan Cones
SOMEONE OLD, SOMEONE NEW
Testaments - Alice Camille
WE ARE FAMILY
Culture in Context - Patrick McCormick
MORAL KOMBAT
Margin Notes - Kevin Clarke
DAMNED IF WE DO
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