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Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is Editorial Director of 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 work, the two …
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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, 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

Arwen Mosher
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

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 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

Hallie Lord
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

Fr. John Bartunek, LC

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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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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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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Dating Dilemmas

What happens when parents disapprove?

What are Catholic parents to do when they disapprove of their daughter or son’s dating relationship?

Kathryn, a retired schoolteacher from Stuart, Fla., knows what that’s like. When her son was a freshman in college, he began dating a young woman of whom Kathryn was not at all fond. She didn’t like the forcefulness with which the young woman treated her son.

Furthermore, she was greatly concerned about the changes she was seeing in her son: He changed the way he dressed, the way he wore his hair,... READ MORE


Positive Inheritance

Securing Future Faith and Finances

“Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!”

Ecclesiastes 1:2 is one of the most famous phrases in the Bible. The author goes on to discuss a variety of issues, noting the fleeting nature of so many of man’s pursuits.

When it comes to the creation of wealth, the author says, “Here is one who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill, and yet to another who has not labored over it, he must leave property. This also is vanity and a great misfortune” (Ecclesiastes... READ MORE


Worth Working For

Interview With a Veteran NFP Instructor

Kathy Rivet has seen so many clients across her desk, she can read a chart better upside-down: she’s been teaching NFP for more than 30 years. As a Creighton Model Certified FertiltyCare Practitioner and Educator, she says some of her clients

“are the babies of clients from years ago. [One man] said that he remembered coming with his parents ... and playing with the toys in my office while they were being taught.  When he became engaged he said it was a no-brainer: of course they would come and... READ MORE


Moms Need Friends

Take a chance, reach out, and make one

We were slowly making our way through the “super” store, the children were wandering off, and I was tired. But on this one particular day I was still able to notice another young mom in the trenches like me.

She was with her own brood of three children with another obviously on the way. As we were nearing the end of our shopping trip, I had the nerve to greet her.

I recognized the school uniform of her oldest child as one from the school where I previously taught, so I asked her about it.

That... READ MORE


Star of the New Evangelization

Mary, Our Guide in Today's Connected World

“Look, Mommy!  Look Daddy!  Don’t they look like sparkly connect-the-dots?”  We were late getting home and I was in a hurry to get in the house and get the kids to bed, but my four-year-old’s small voice – made big by her excitement – made me look to the night sky.

I had to agree with her.  The stars did look like sparkly connect-the-dots.

I haven’t been able to go outside since without a reminder of the wonder of the stars.  As the days get shorter heading toward autumn, I have more opportunities... READ MORE


The Back to School Saint

Joseph of Cupertino, an ordinary extraordinary saint

It’s back to school time, and for me that means one thing: Saint Joseph of Cupertino.

It’s not a name you usually hear when it comes to books and saints, there aren’t many schools named after Saint Joseph of Cupertino. But that’s only because it’s the people who give the tests that name schools. If the test-takers were in charge, Cupertino Academies would be everywhere. He’s the patron saint of those taking tests, even though he wasn’t much of a scholar himself.

Most of Saint Joseph’s academic... READ MORE


Birthday Blues

Sometimes a reality check is the best gift of all

My birthday began with a quiet, romantic dinner for two. It ended with a rowdy family meal at our favorite Mexican restaurant. The perfect beginning, the perfect end.

Everything in between pretty much stunk.

The culprits? Miserable weather, an oven that went belly up, potty training run amuck, and a dozen expectations left unmet. I cried at least twice.

In the days that followed, I tried to pinpoint just where things fell apart. I recalled a character from C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, a woman... READ MORE


Vocation Boom

Online ministry supports and encourages vocations

When Pope Benedict XVI announced the Year for Priests in June 2009, it seemed to Jerry Usher like the confirmation of an idea he had had for 20 years. He thought, The Year for Priests is now the time to unveil “Vocation Boom.”

The first phase of his new initiative is VocationBoom.com, which launched on Sept. 14, 2009, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.

The website’s purpose is to provide a place where young men interested in the priesthood can find resources and serve as “a one-stop global... READ MORE


Cosmic Symphony

Creation is the First Movement

Creation reveals God’s majesty and mystery in the universe … like a dramatic melody establishing a familiar refrain within the first movement of a cosmic symphony in four parts: creation, the fall, redemption, and finally, heaven. (You’ll never appreciate the finale unless you’ve heard the previous three movements.)

What’s more, creation is God’s first movement or step toward us in his divine plan.

God’s creation of all things seen and unseen, as we pray in the Creed, is a masterful plan to draw... READ MORE


Mission: Mom

Learning to Pray Our Kids Through College

Editor’s Note: This essay was published as part of the annual Catholic College Guide in the Fall 2010 issue of Faith & Family magazine.

“Just face it; you’re going to be a blubbering wreck.” It was a summer-long mantra chanted by friends, day after day after day.

And it stood to reason, really. We were headed to drop off our eldest child, Allie, at college for the first time. Even the words “drop off” seemed odd. This was no play date. No school function. This particular drop-off would create a... READ MORE



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