If you are Catholic, one might recognize that the three Church-designated vocation callings are — religious life, marriage, and being single. However, within the Catholic community discourse, one ...

In an advice column in a local newspaper, a woman whose husband had died eight months ago wrote to say that she dreaded the holidays. “I am alone and find it difficult to be festive,” she said. “Am I ...

“It was a truth universally acknowledged that by age forty I was supposed to have a certain kind of life, one that, whatever else it involved, included a partner and babies.” But on the eve of her ...