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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

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Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com, a Catholic web site focusing on the Catholic faith, Catholic parenting and family life, and Catholic cultural topics. Most recently she has authored The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also employed as webmaster for her parish web sites. …
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Arwen Mosher

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Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their young children Camilla and Blaise. 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 is ABC Family. …
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Rebecca Teti

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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 is the managing editor of Faith & Family magazine. She is (yikes!) an almost 30 year-old, single lady, living in Connecticut with her two cousins 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 …
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Hallie Lord

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Hallie Lord married her dashing husband, Dan, in the fall of 2001 (the same year, coincidentally, that she joyfully converted to the Catholic faith). They now happily reside in the deep South with their two energetic boys and two very sassy girls. In her *ample* spare time, Hallie enjoys cheap wine, …
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Fr. John Bartunek, LC

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Fr John Bartunek, LC, STL, received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. After college he worked as a high school history teacher, drama director, and …
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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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Elizabeth Foss

Elizabeth Foss
Elizabeth Foss, an award winning columnist for the Arlington Catholic Herald, published her first book, Real Learning: Education in the Heart of My Home in 2003. The book is now in its third printing. Her popular blog, In the Heart of My Home is a source of inspiration and support for Catholic women …
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The Beauty That Matters

Susan Boyle merited respect before she sang

I’m so glad Rachel posted the link to Susan Boyle’s performance on Britain’s Got Talent.

If you’ve watched that, I think you’ll enjoy this column from her native Scotland’s Herald.

It tells us a bit about Boyle’s admirable life—and reminds us she would still have deserved our respect had her voice been less than what it is.

Here’s a cute interview with her from CBS.


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God bless this woman for her faithful & loving care of her parents.  She is blessed with a beautiful voice!  May those who seek fame & fortune from her talent not succeed in a shallow remaking of Susan Boyle…she is beautiful as she is.

 

Wow.  Listening to her sing mad the hair on the back of my neck stand up.  Such a sweet humble woman.  I pray she is blessed through this competition and that everyone becomes a little more aware that beauty comes in many ways.

 

The article you cited in the Herald was absolutely beautiful and dead on.  This is such a lovely story.

 

In addition to her absolutely amazing voice, personality & charm, I was struck greatly by her amazing humility.  She was just so darned CUTE & shy during that interview…she is truly a remarkable woman & I can’t wait to keep up w/how she does in the future!

 

I had the biggest lump in my throat when I saw this and I put it on my FaceBook page…WOW!  This article is so right on and I think I will put this link on FB, too!  She’s awesome!!!

 

Thank you so much for sharing this story.  I pray Susan is blessed with her own DVD.  her story is such an inspiritation.

 

I really admire Susan Boyle, but if ONE MORE interviewer takes the time to point out to the poor woman that she doesn’t look like much, I’m going to scream and then sob on her behalf. Do they HAVE to rub it in so? All those pretty people on television? Can’t they just focus on her immense talent and forget about her physical appearance for the two minutes they have her on the air?

If they keep this up, they’re going to destroy her. Oh, and anybody care to guess how long it will be before she’s “treated” to a makeover?

 

Thanks for sharing that.  I admit I didn’t click through on the original video initially (due to internet slowness), but this morning I did and…tears.

 

This is why I do not watch American Idol.  It is not just that Susan Boyle has a hidden greatness because she took care of her parents for so long.  It is that there is no person who deserves to be talked to the way those judges talk to people.  It is completely horrible.


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