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Meet the Faith & Family bloggers. We invite you to join us in encouraging and helping the Faith & Family community grow in faith!

Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is editor-in-chief of Catholic Digest and Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea, Mom to Mom, Day to Day, and most recently Small Steps for Catholic Moms. Though she once struggled to separate her life and her …
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and they are the parents of five lively boys and one precious baby girl. She is the author of How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?, and is a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has …
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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com and the author of A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms and The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also enjoys speaking around the country, is employed as webmaster for her parish web sites and spends time on various …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their 4-year-old daughter, 2-year-old son, and twin boys born May 2011. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee

Robyn Lee
Robyn Lee is a 30-something, single lady, living in Connecticut in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law and six kids ... and two doors down are her parents. She received her undergraduate degree from …
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DariaSockey

DariaSockey
Daria Sockey is a freelance writer and veteran of the large family/homeschooling scene. She recently returned home from a three-year experiment in full time outside employment. (Hallelujah!) Daria authored several of the original Faith&Life Catechetical Series student texts (Ignatius Press), and is currently a Senior Writer for Faith&Family magazine. A latecomer …
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Guest Bloggers

Kate Lloyd

Kate Lloyd
Kate Lloyd is a rising senior, and a political science major at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. While not in school, she lives in Whitehall PA, with her mom, dad, five sisters and little brother. She needs someone to write a piece about how it's possible to …
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Lynn Wehner

Lynn Wehner
As a wife and mother, writer and speaker, Lynn Wehner challenges others to see the blessings that flow when we struggle to say "Yes" to God’s call. Control freak extraordinaire, she is adept at informing God of her brilliant plans and then wondering why the heck they never turn out that …
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Elizabeth Arendale
I was born and raised Orthodox Catholic in the south. Married to a non-Catholic. I have 7 wonderfully unique children -- one of whom is our little saint in heaven. I homeschool the oldest four. I love reading, cooking with fresh ingredients, hiking, watersports, knitting, and the great outdoors. I blog about whatever at Interior Castle.

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Book Review

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has heard of and read a series of books by Chuck Black: Knights of Arrethtrae? I know they are...

Prayers for a priest please
My brother is a priest approaching 10 years from final vows in his order. At the end of the school year he will be transfered...

Confused, having troubles with my Rosary praying
Oo..I see. After reading this I was thinking:" Is God really so nice to us?" Actually I do tend to worry a lot. But I think God...

Confused, having troubles with my Rosary praying
I'm so happy that Kristin and I have given you some peace. I am reading about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) as I begin...

Confused, having troubles with my Rosary praying
Sorry for the late reply..I thank you both so much. I'm feeling a bit more at ease now with God. I followed what you said and...

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Anger management
I am ashamed to admit that I am often impatient with my two older children (4 and 3). Some times I am guilty of being a terrible...

School Daze: What’s Best for Your Child?
Today CatholicExchange.com published my article on charter schools -- a topic that can be rather controversial in some circles....

Calling for prayers as we send “kids” back to college!
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Today's the day for driving my daughter back to her university... and I can feel that lump in my gut building.... these goodbyes...

Beautiful Religious Notecards—Support the Carmel of Reno!
Are you looking to buy some beautiful -- and inexpensive -- notecards for holidays, birthdays, or general correspondence? I'd...

Pregnant Women: Please consider umbilical cord/blood donation after birth!
Boston just got its first public cord/blood bank at Brigham & Womens Hospital.

Cord Blood is a rich source of stem cells that...

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As we enter into the season of giving, you may have some interest in volunteering, or introducing a young person to this aspect of community-fellowship. The mes…

An Act of Courage—And Mercy

Did you catch “the Crescat’s” sad and beautiful story of her post-abortion experience?

You owe it to yourself to read it.

I’m sure the post must be of God, since it accomplishes a minor miracle: the comments make one proud, rather than ashamed, to be a Christian!

Read through them and let anyone fearing to confess sin see the love and mercy that awaits not only from Christ himself, but from his Church. That’s what Christians are really like—in spite of what you may see in the com-boxes when we are debating in the abstract.

Thank you, Katrina Fernandez, for your bold confession.

And for this follow-up post filled with resources for women who have experienced the trauma of abortion.

Talking Truth

how Catholic counseling brought light to my life

Jennifer Fulwiler, who recently witnessed a horrific accident, writes at her NC Register blog about seeing a Catholic counselor to help her process her traumatic experience. She had doubts - would therapy be “misused as a replacement for prayer and trust in God”? - but explains in her piece how she overcame those doubts, and how seeing a counselor is helping her heal.

As someone who has greatly benefitted from counseling myself, I want to stand up and cheer when I read pieces like Jen’s. In my... READ MORE

The Burden of Infertility

a heartfelt essay

Many of us will never know the tremendous sadness of infertility. We go about our day and focus on how God uses our family size, our openness to life, to draw us closer to Him through trust in his love for us—even in the hard seasons of busy family life.

For some couples, there is a similar lesson in trust, through opposite circumstances entirely. And unless you know someone very personally struggling with infertility, you may be unaware of the sadness of that unique cross.

Yesterday I came across... READ MORE

School Rules

Coffee Talk: Education

(Join each day’s Coffee Talk discussion: Mon: Parenting; Tues: Open Forum; Wed: NFP; Thu: Marriage; Fri: Education; Sat/Sun: Homemaking)

Whether your children attend school or are homeschooled, this is the spot to ask questions about curricula, religious education, parent-teacher relationships, or academic concerns of any kind.

Please join us!

My Saintly New iPad Case

Check out this treasure!

I have shared with you in the past the amazing work done by my friend Gail Seymour of Gaila Designs. This week, Gail gifted me with this fantastic new iPad case, designed especially for me! Watch the video below to see all of the special features! Gail sells not only her cases and covers, but also very affordably priced and high quality PDF patterns of her designs. Visit her on Etsy at http://www.etsy.com/shop/GailaDesigns?ref=pr_shop_more or order your own custom iPad case here. The can be personalized with your favorite photo or graphic and make a fantastic gift!

Latest Catholic Digest

my thoughts on this issue

My copy of the June/July Catholic Digest came in the mail this week and I’ve been working my way through the issue.

My thoughts thus far: the story on Eduardo Verastegui is very interesting, and I can’t wait to see his latest movie For Greater Glory. Are you planning on going?

Also, the Father’s Day gift guide is very helpful. I even sent along one idea to my sister-in-law for my brother. Four words: baseball bat bottle opener. (Need I say more?!) It’s a bottle opener made out of an authentic game... READ MORE

Just the Two of You

Coffee Talk: Marriage

(Join each day’s Coffee Talk discussion: Mon: Parenting; Tues: Open Forum; Wed: NFP; Thu: Marriage; Fri: Education; Sat/Sun: Homemaking)

Struggling in your marriage? Have some relationship advice to share? Have a marriage success story to share? Have a man/woman question? This weekly thread is the place to do it.

Come on in and join the conversation!

Faith & Your Fertility

Coffee Talk: NFP

(Join each day’s Coffee Talk discussion: Mon: Parenting; Tues: Open Forum; Wed: NFP; Thu: Marriage; Fri: Education; Sat/Sun: Homemaking)

This weekly thread is a place where you can share your struggles, triumphs, links, resources, concerns, and questions about all things related to Natural Family Planning.

Please join the conversation!