It was a humid August in Paris when Claire Brown learned she was pregnant. Working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute Curie, Brown was thousands of miles away from her family and friends in Canada. The father had already revealed himself as untrustworthy; he would later berate her for being “selfish” because she would not abort the child. 

At this liturgical moment when Catholic eyes, hearts and minds focus on Mary as the mother who delivered our Lord and Saviour into the world, it������Ƶapp fitting to also direct attention to the Canadian women behind Momentum.

Stay-at-home mom Jessica Fraga is using her love of crafting again this year to raise funds for abused women.

Not every young woman hears that blessed is the fruit of her womb. More than a few young women are left isolated, afraid, overwhelmed from the moment they know they’re pregnant.

When Dorothy Pilarski reflects on her life since leaving the corporate world to launch a successful Catholic women������Ƶapp ministry, she imagines her mother looking down on her giggling from Heaven.

VANCOUVER -- It may take a village to raise a child, but Abbotsford mom Renae Regehr recently found herself wondering: what happens when parents don’t have a village to turn to?

In Toronto the priestly ordinations usually have a maternal character. The customary date is in May, Mary������Ƶapp month, and usually falls the day before Mother������Ƶapp Day, which is not a religious feast day, but certainly can be looked upon with the eyes of faith.

Mothers and daughters were brought together on March 24 to learn more about successes and struggles that have defined the growing empowerment of women.

March 7 is the feast day for Sts. Perpetua and Felicitas — the patron saints of mothers and expectant mothers — and the story of these two courageous martyrs is appropriate to reflect upon.