“The share of the U.S.’s 130 million households headed by married parents with children under age 18 fell to 17.8% in 2021 from 18.6% last year,” according to Bloomberg’s summary of census data. “That’s down from more than 40% in 1970. . . . By absolute numbers, there are just 23.1 million homes with nuclear families, the fewest since 1959.”
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and
