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 Political Philosophy & Drama. She holds an MA in Political Theory from Catholic University and pre-children worked a variety of non-profit jobs, including as a pro-life lobbyist and later director of the Center for Family Development in Bethesda, MD. Rebecca now writes from home, with special interest in marriage and family issues, whatever the Pope is doing, retrieving Lego bricks from underfoot, and homemade pie.
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Catholic. American. Proud to be Both
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Thursday, May 31, 2012
Worried about the direction of the country and don’t know what to do about it?
How about a two week national “revival” movement of prayer and patriotism, to cover the country in grace and re-dedicate ourselves to the basic liberties enshrined in the Declaration and Bill of Rights?
Right, Left, Center or Undecided, any person of good will can take part with pride in the Fortnight for Freedom.
The... READ MORE
College For All?
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Wednesday, May 30, 2012
When Rick Santorum said college wasn’t for everybody, it caused a hullaballoo, likely because of the tone in which he said it.
People couldn’t get past his calling the President a snob for insisting on college for everyone.
The full context of his remark, in which he said that white collar jobs aren’t the only “real” jobs and it’s unjust to people with better aptitudes for manual labor or music or... READ MORE
Westward, Ho!
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Tuesday, May 29, 2012
The most wonderful photos of the American West are on offer over at The Atlantic site.
Pop over and see 34 photographs taken in the 1860s and 70s by photographer Timothy O’Sullivan.
O’Sullivan was sent as part of a government team of soldiers and surveyors of various kinds to see what use to make of the natural resources.
In his travels he took astonishingly beautiful photographs of the rugged terrain, and documented settler life and that of Native Americans.
My favorite qua photograph is #27 of his Mojave translator and guide. But the photos from a silver mine and the skyline of Santa Fe in 1870 are fascinating.
Which are your favorites?
An Act of Courage—And Mercy
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Friday, May 25, 2012
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.
Called By Name
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Tuesday, May 22, 2012
My archdiocese transferred the feast of the Ascension to this past Sunday.
There was a choice of Second Readings and in my parish we heard a passage from Ephesians four that concludes thus:
“he gave some as apostles, others as prophets, others as evangelists, others as pastors and teachers, to equip the holy ones for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to... READ MORE
The Truth About Stem Cells
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Monday, May 21, 2012
The secular world seems at last to be catching up to the Church in recognizing the limits of embryonic stem cell research.
In a recent interview with ABC News, Michael J. Fox, ESCR’s most prominent celebrity advocate, admits such research isn’t looking very promising.
He still doesn’t see the moral objection, nor has he recanted his previous support, but he at least acknowledges it isn’t nearly so promising as ethical avenues of research.
other avenues of research have grown and multiplied and become as much or more promising. So, an answer may come from stem cell research but it’s more than likely to come from another area,
As we’ve discussed here often (see here, here and here for example), researchers largely turned their backs on ESCR long ago because it simply isn’t as promising as adult stem cell research and other therapies.
It’s nice to hear it confirmed beyond pro-life venues.
Dear Mike
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rebecca Teti in Marriage on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Do you know Letters of Note?
As the name implies, it publishes interesting correspondence.
I love it because of the window it provides into the interior lives of public people.
Here’s a lovely note the late Ronald Reagan sent his son Michael before his wedding.
Click over to read the whole thing, but here’s a taste:
Mike, you know better than many what an unhappy home is and what it can do to others. Now you have a chance to make it come out the way it should. There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
Does The Contraceptive Mentality Exist?
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rebecca Teti in Marriage on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Oh, have mercy, not another internet NFP debate.
Well, yes, except I’m not trying to stir a debate necessarily, but to learn something.
Two things, actually.
A couple of my friends posted this nicely balanced reflection on why Catholics need not use NFP.
I like the article, but I’ve never heard anyone suggest NFP was required so am curious if you have. That’s question one.
My second question is... READ MORE
Mother's Day Gift
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rebecca Teti in Family on Friday, May 11, 2012
This lovely drawing of St. Gianna Molla is not the picture I wanted to accompany this post.
For that photo you have to click past “the jump,” for reasons that will become clear.
I don’t know the artist, David Myers, from Adam.
An act of kindness he performed for a young man he met on a school visit touched me so greatly I have to share it.
I’ll let Dave himself tell the story, which somehow turned... READ MORE
A Good Shepherd
Faith and Family Live! | Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Wednesday, May 09, 2012
A dear friend of mine relates the story of a bad misjudgment she made as a first-year teacher.
While chaperoning a field trip to a local mall, she allowed two girls (6th or 7th graders?) to break away from her party and run upstairs “just for a second.”
I don’t recall the details but something bad almost happened (a strange man was involved).
Rightly the parents raised holy hell.
My friend still recalls... READ MORE
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