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Meet the Faith & Family bloggers. We invite you to join us in encouraging and helping the Faith & Family community grow in faith!

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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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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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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Anything but Ordinary

A grace-filled time of the year

Recently, I was chatting with a friend who told me that she was headed home to take down her Christmas tree. She hated doing it, she shared. I congratulated her on truly understanding and appreciating our liturgical calendar, chiding myself for the fact that my tree was down and put away shortly after New Years.

But the truth of the matter is this: the older I get, the more I find myself appreciating... READ MORE 


Help in Healing

Today we celebrate Our Lady of Lourdes and World Day of the Sick

As I sat in Mass this morning on the occasion of World Day of the Sick and the optional memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, I was touched deeply by the words of the Monsignor who celebrated today’s liturgy. 

He spoke passionately about having visited Lourdes and the baths, and the lasting imprint it has left upon him in his ministry and his own personal prayer life.  Truthfully, I was a bit saddened... READ MORE 


iPray

Mission to MacWorld has me contemplating Catholic iPhone apps

On Tuesday, immediately following my date with my “Radiation Girlfriends”, I hopped in my car and drove the three hours to San Francisco to attend the first day of this year’s MacWorld Expo.

For those non-geeks out there, MacWorld is an annual tech conference highlighting the latest and greatest of all things Apple.  Where most of my friends would head to the big city to help their daughters find... READ MORE 


Happy Feast Day, Honey!

Today, we celebrate the Feast of St. Luke, Evangelist

Five years ago, after seventeen years of marriage, I had the joy of watching my husband Greg be received into the Catholic Church through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA).

When Greg was confirmed, he took as his patron saint St. Luke, the Evangelist and patron saint of physicians.  Greg’s devotion to St. Luke seemed fitting, since he is an emergency medicine physician.  Today, we... READ MORE 


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