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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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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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Never Too Late to Learn

an inspiring story

“The richness is in me, in my heart and head, not in my pockets.”

This story about a 52-year-old Albanian refugee who earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University - while working as a janitor there - gave me a smile and a lift today. Maybe it will do the same for you.

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When You Can't Afford Diapers

Charitable and creative solutions

Wouldn’t it be awful if you couldn’t afford to change your baby’s diaper every time he needed it?

There are a lot of people who can’t. I imagine this article, from a New York news channel, gives only a tiny glimpse of the bigger problem.

Providing diapers to low-income families is an important mission, and this charity, The Diaper Bank, is tackling it. You can read more about them at their website.... READ MORE 


The Broadcasting See

read more about it

Did you know that the Vatican has had its own radio program for 80 years?

Over the decades, Vatican Radio has - among other things - helped unite war refugees and their families after World War II, and broadcast to those behind the Iron Curtain during the years of European communism. Pretty cool!

I enjoyed reading the history. You can read it, as well as the Vatican’s plans for the radio’s future, at CatholicNews.com.

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A Father's "Lamentations"

Fun with family rules

What would happen if a regular old dad wrote his household rules in the style of the laws of the Old Testament?

Apparently it would be pretty funny. Because someone did it, and it is.

This article at the Atlantic, which was published in 1997 but is no less witty for being fourteen years old, begins: “Of the beasts of the field, and of the fishes of the sea, and of all foods that are acceptable in my sight you may eat, but not in the living room.”

It just gets better from there. If you need a laugh, here it is: “Laws Concerning Food and Drink; Household Principles; Lamentations of the Father” by Ian Frazier.


Know the Real Enemy?

Read this article and recognize it

It’s long, but if you read one thing today, let this be it: “The Winning Strategy” by Peter Kreeft.

I can’t summarize it as well as he wrote it, so don’t waste time here - go read now! Here’s a quote to draw you in:

“That’s what’s at stake in this war: not just whether America will become a banana republic, or whether we’ll forget Shakespeare, or even whether some nuclear terrorist will incinerate half of humanity, but whether our children and our children’s children will see God forever. That’s what’s at stake in ‘Hollywood versus America.’”

(Note: I’m pretty sure that the prayer of Pope Leo XIII to which Kreeft refers is the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel, found here. Know it! Love it! It’s a wonderful prayer.)


Pans Under the Tree?

Share your thoughts on practical gifts

My husband and I had been married for one Christmas, or maybe two, when some family friends gave us one of their tips for a happy marriage.

“No gifts that plug in!” the wife admonished Bryan laughingly, wagging a finger in the air.

Over the years I’ve often thought of that moment as I’ve opened gifts by the tree. Some of my favorites have broken that rule - like the year when my husband went way over... READ MORE 


No Kids, Please?

Choices of the child-free

I read an article this afternoon. I can’t decide whether to recommend that you read it or not.

It’s interesting. It’s well-written. It’s eye-opening. But, if you’re anything like me, it will also make you want to tear your hair out.

This piece in the Weekly Standard is called “There Goes the Neighborhood,” and it’s about the child-free movement.

Have you heard about this? If not, you might not want... READ MORE 


"Charity is Hard and Endures"

A wise answer to discontent with Christianity

In response to Anne Rice’s well-publicized resolve to “quit” Christianity, Rod Dreher quotes a letter by Flannery O’Connor.

Like all of O’Connor’s writing, it is well worth reading. And considering the current scandals going on the in the Church, I think it’s very applicable today.

Here’s my favorite thought from the letter:

“You don’t serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I’ll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness is a sign of your nearness to God. We help overcome this lack of effectiveness simply by suffering on account of it.”

But you should read the whole article.


Freezing for Later?

A new (awful) use of IVF

Here’s a new way to use tiny human beings: as “insurance against infertility.”

Those are the words of Gillian St. Lawrence, a Georgetown woman who did four in-vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles last year. She and her husband weren’t trying to get pregnant; they were just making embryos to freeze. They now have five embryos frozen, and they’ll transfer them a few years down the road, when they’re “ready... READ MORE 


New Priest Hope

Great article in the Washington Post

“Fall in love with the Lord, and it will change everything. Fall out of love with Him, and it will change everything.”

That’s the advice given by Monsignor Steven Rohlfs, Rector of Mount St. Mary’s seminary, to his students during the last class before their ordination.

In a time when the Church is getting slammed by the media, this article in the Washington Post is a surprisingly positive interview... READ MORE 


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