Ave Explores Series | Catholic Family Life Series

This week, Ave Explores: Catholic Family Life shows how families can grow in holiness and be a witness of Christ’s love in the world even in the midst of uncertainty and suffering.

David and Rachel Leininger talk with host Katie Prejean McGrady about finding healing after two miscarriages, even as they walked through their grief.

PODCASTS

Forming Families and Finding Joy

Marcia Lane McGee shares the story of her open adoption and her work as a family teacher at the Mooseheart Home near Chicago with host Katie Prejean McGrady. Lane McGee demonstrates how every person can help others find joy.

Fruitfulness and Infertility

Timothy P. O’Malley, director of McGrath Theology Online at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, talks with Prejean McGrady about his family’s struggle with infertility and how all couples are called to fruitfulness within marriage, even when carrying that cross. The Notre Dame professor also discusses discernment and dating for young adults.  

ARTICLE

Holy Pruning

Elizabeth Tomlin, Catholic author, speaker, and general counsel for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, writes about recalibrating and “holy pruning” her life as she faces a wrinkle in her usual plans for fall.

  
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