In my journey through the Christian life, certain spiritual mentors have guided and shaped me in profound ways. In college, it was St....

I sat down to write a piece on Easter Sunday and inevitably I am brought first to Good Friday. For just as Venerable Fulton Sheen wrote, “Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday,” without the painful cross of infertility, our family would not be the miracle that it is. My womb never bore children, I remain infertile almost eight years after my husband and I said “I do”. This might look like an abject failure, like the absence of a miracle, bu

Then, Easter changed. It became a season of darkness and perpetual death. This darkness settled in my heart after we miscarried our first and only biological child. I was left barren and fruitless. Although Jesus died and resurrected, I remained dead inside because my fertility was dead and would never resurrect.

Understanding these weapons and why they're targeted helps us recognize the enemy's tactics and stand firm in our faith. Each time we choose

As we begin Advent and prepare for the coming of Jesus, I wanted to share about the power in His holy name. I had intentions of finding...

Society tends to define a woman's fruitfulness by her ability to bear children. This concept of fruitfulness is narrow and can leave those..

That pain stayed in my heart throughout the trip. I prayed the Lord would meet me here, in the mountains, in my suffering, but I felt...

When I learned that St. Anne and her husband experienced infertility before the birth of our Blessed Mother, it made me realize that God's..

I had an almost paralyzing fear about being pregnant again. This was something I desperately wanted, yet wanted to run away from. ...

“I’m going to be honest with you because someone needs to be. At your current weight, you have no business trying to conceive”. I steady...

"I have come so they may have life and have it more abundantly" says Jesus in John 10:10. It is the desire of every human heart, to live an

I love my childless life. That’s a sentence I never thought I would say! My husband Donovan and I have been trying for a baby for almost...

I invite you to tread this path with me, and to open your heart to ALL the possibilities God has in store for you. We put God in a narrow...

It was movie night. I thought I was sitting down to watch a light-hearted horror movie (Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice). Instead, I had stumbled..

Every time we come to a new year, I wonder what it will hold. In the past few years, though, I’ve noticed that my gazes into the future...

Society wants us to believe that a marriage is only fruitful when children come from it. If that were the case, what would be the purpose...

When you're stuck in the muck of the messiness that infertility brings, it is hard to see the light. It may feel like your feet and heart...

We were in front of the cathedral. It was nearing midnight. The air was crisp, I could see my breath. I was in need of physical healing...

On July 26 the Church celebrates the feast of Sts. Anne and Joachim, parents of Our Lady, and the fourth Sunday of July is therefore known..

“He’s God of the hills and valleys.” (Tauren Wells) While listening to the Sunday readings one day (Luke 17:5-10… faith the size of a musta