I was an unchurched, liberal feminist — until 2007 when, to the bafflement of many, I was baptized into the Catholic Church…

My first child was born on April 12, 2011. The questions that I had considered only in the abstract now became as real as the cooing and crying baby I held in my exhausted arms. How could my husband and I help a child best to feel rooted, connected and secure in the world? Was it through the constant pursuit of financial success…