Leticia Ochoa Adams, Author at Catholic Herald

Leticia Ochoa Adams

The Young Woman Who Jumped Off the Bridge

January 04, 2021

It had been such a good day. In the snap of a finger, I was back in my garage trying to figure out if Anthony was really dead as I looked at his lifeless body. It was like the worst time machine ride ever. It happened so fast that I am sure I had some kind of mental whiplash.

Should mothers work outside the home? What about poor mothers?

July 11, 2021

Women who work, but work from home, usually start the debate about working mothers. They make moral judgements on women who choose to work outside of the home in careers they consider to be personally fulfilling. The women who work outside of the home come back with their own arguments. Neither group talks about women

Disney and Jesus

May 24, 2021

A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I accompanied my grandchildren and daughter in law to Disney World. Both of us grew up so dirt-poor that we never even wished to go to Disney. The idea that we might ever be able to go was just too far-fetched for us. By some weird twist

Good Fathers

April 10, 2021

An accidental reflection on Divine Mercy. There is so much to Catholicism: philosophy, theology, sociology and then the PR arm of everything — the optics — and all of these “parts” of Catholicism have their own beauty and depth and problems. It has been an amazing part of my life to get to learn about

Reason for Hope: The Message and the Messaging

March 25, 2021

On Monday of last week, the Vatican released a statement on same sex unions saying, among other things: “God cannot Bless sin.” This caused a lot of pain and confusion among LBGTQ Catholics. For that, I blame theologians who give people the false hope that the teaching on marriage in the Catholic Church will change.

Trauma-informed Church

March 08, 2021

Over the past few years I have been processing my childhood trauma in therapy. I have read a lot of books on the issue of trauma and what it means to be trauma-informed — I am sure that there is a technical definition of what “trauma-informed” means, but for me, it means understanding the biological

Dancing in the Minefield

February 22, 2021

My husband and I moved in together in May of 2008. Both of us were drinking a lot during that time, while living together and caring for our seven kids. We had no plans for marriage. We made a lot of mistakes, fought a lot, and were both pretty dysfunctional. That is how it began.

Lent is Coming

February 15, 2021

I am on Twitter again — don’t ask me why, because honestly, I do not know if I can answer that honestly — I do love Twitter because there is so much information on it and I learn from people. I hate it because it goes so fast and because it is where some of

Time for Real Talk about Sex

January 30, 2021

Catholics need to make space to have open and honest conversations about sex. St. Pope John Paul II did a great job in breaking ground for these conversations, but the lack of trust and belief in the good will of the people in them seems to have made it difficult to keep going. The language

Eyes and Ears

January 20, 2021

Weeks ago I wrote an article on how we move forward from here. It came from thoughts I gathered after a visit home to my small town. One of the things I saw while driving around in my small rural Texas town that stood out to me is how it seemed as if the Trump

Whiteness at Work

January 13, 2021

It is wild to see Whiteness work. I’m a Hispanic woman born and raised in Texas, so I’ve had a front row seat to White Supremacy doing its thing. I’ve watched people deny White Supremacy even exists, too. Anyone can see it clearly in all the ways that some people are bending over backwards to excuse

Resolution and Intention

January 04, 2021

I am picking my own word and saint for 2021. Most years I use the generators created by Jen Fulwiler for this because it is an awesome tool. But this year the word that keeps coming to me is “intention” so I felt like that meant I needed to pick my word and saint of

Resolution

December 29, 2020

Everyone is talking about goal setting again. It’s that time of year: a perfect time to discuss the reality of goal setting in my life. First, there’s the voice in my head telling me that I need goals and need to accomplish these goals and even what the goals need to be: a voice that

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