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  • abuse,  current events,  Homosexuality,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Pope Francis,  prayer,  Rome,  scandal,  Sex,  sin

    Disillusionment with the Church

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Remember believing in Santa? Shhhh, my kids still do. Maybe that’s a bad analogy. Maybe you never believed in Santa. What about this: maybe you believed your mom or your dad to be invincible. Kind of superhuman…

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  • Catholic Spirituality,  current events,  Pope Francis,  Rome,  sin,  Suffering

    Finding grace in the Eternal City

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I woke up blinking and disoriented in the chilly darkness of our hotel room, craning my neck to see if any light was squeezing through the cracks of the blackout shutters. I rolled over and grabbed my…

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  • abuse,  Catholic Spirituality,  Catholics Do What?,  Culture of Death,  current events,  Pope Francis,  scandal,  sin,  Suffering

    Flipping tables in the temple

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I have fielded countless emails, Instagram messages, comments, and texts from faithful Catholics these last few weeks. Most carry the same tone of concern and horror for what is coming to light: an egregious lack of transparency…

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  • Catholics Do What?,  Evangelization,  JPII,  Pope Francis

    Why World Youth Day still matters

    By Jenny Uebbing

    The Pope is on Instagram, and the world is flat. Flatter far than it was back in the 1980s when Pope St. John Paul II first conceived of an international gathering of Catholic youth to come together…

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  • birth story,  Catholic Spirituality,  Culture of Death,  euthanasia,  Pope Francis,  Pro Life

    Is having kids “sustainable?”

    By Jenny Uebbing

    (Perhaps I could have called this one “does green sex = green babies?” but older, wiser Jenny is actually a little embarrassed to have gotten that term rolling.) A couple months back a reader messaged me with a good…

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  • Culture of Death,  Evangelization,  Family Life,  Marriage,  Pope Francis,  Pornography,  sin,  Suffering

    Lord, we need you

    By Jenny Uebbing

    There are two women sitting to my right, and I’ve been trying – unsuccessfully – not to overhear them for the past half hour, sitting and working in a coffee shop. They’ve been chatting therapy and personal…

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  • Catholics Do What?,  motherhood,  Pope Francis,  Women's Health

    Mamas who {literally} need coffee

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Sometimes – not as often as I’d like to admit, but sometimes – I think about where my food came from. About the people who raised it, about that hands that prepared it and packaged it. About…

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  • About Me,  Catholic Spirituality,  Evangelization,  Family Life,  motherhood,  Parenting,  Pope Francis

    Pope bait: a Philadelphia story

    By Jenny Uebbing

    When we did the math on the World Meeting of Families and Luke’s due date, it didn’t seem likely that I’d be joining Dave for the event. All throughout his pregnancy I thought to myself, “if he…

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