This month, the Catholic Writers’ Guild is touring Allison Gingras’s book, Encountering Signs of Faith.
The Shepherd’s Pie: Challenges and Blessings in Adoption
Antony Barone Kolenc speaks with adoptive mother and award-winning author Allison Gingras about the beauty and challenges of raising adopted children.
Make NO Mistake and Never Forget: Mothers are Women and Female is their Gender
I found myself writing this around Mother’s Day because the legal definition of “gender” has become controversial. I begin with a quote from Cardinal Giovanni Ravasi; President of the Pontifical Council of Culture: “The love of man and woman, capable of generating life, is a sign that points to God.” The […]
When the Crib and the Cross Converge: Our Personal Adoption Story
The minute the judge walked into the courtroom on December 5, I knew I was in trouble. What I had envisioned as a measured ritual of signing papers at the courthouse became an extremely emotional event when the judge, who surprisingly was a family friend, swore us in and asked […]