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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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Teens Win Cash for School

Theology of the Body Essay Contest

Very cool!

Ascension Press is sponsoring a Theology of the Body Scholarship Essay Contest with some great prizes:

Essays should be between 1000 and 1500 words, and they should explore the following topic:

How has the Theology of the Body impacted the way I see myself as a young man/ young woman in today’s culture?

Young men and young women will be judged in separate categories, with a grand prize,... READ MORE 


Do Kids Make You Miserable?

Of course!

Time. Newsweek. New York magazine.

Mary Eberstadt has a nice column summarizing the recent spate of articles purporting to show that nothing’s more miserable than being a parent.

She makes the point the question is too subjective to be meaningful.

Ask me when I haven’t slept in 6 months I’ll say something different than the day Princess cleans her room without being asked.

She makes a beautiful... READ MORE 


Turn 500 Words Into $1,000

National Catholic Register sponsors college scholarship contest

Here’s a very cool way for high school seniors and college underclassmen to earn tuition dollars:

Thanks to the generosity of an education-minded donor, the National Catholic Register is pleased to announce its first-ever scholarship contest.

To win one of three tuition-deferring prizes, all you have to do is write well on a theme close to the hearts of Register readers: Catholic Is Cooler Than Secular. We’ll award $1,000 to the winner, $750 to the first runner-up and $500 to the second runner-up.

See here for all the details—and good luck!


Happy Memorial Day

how will you spend it?
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I wanted to share with you some advice a Navy chaplain serving at our parish once gave to kids at a school mass on the Friday before Memorial Day.

(I liked it so much I wrote it down.)

He asked the students to sit for a few moments before he gave the final blessing, and then told them:

I know you’re not sorry to have a day off on Monday, and I hope you enjoy the weekend, but I also hope you’ll remember... READ MORE 


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