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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 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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Dan, With a Hammer

What man through yonder window breaks?

Here’s a peek at the view from my living room window a couple of days ago.

It’s Dan, with a hammer.

In preparation for the coming winter, we have been replacing some of our windows with more energy efficient ones. And by “‘we” I mean Dan.

Because I don’t do that kind of thing. He does.

When we were dating in high school, Dan once drew me a picture of a rabbit. I held on to that drawing for years... READ MORE 


Little Girl Love

My daughter welcomes a new cousin!

This week I had an awesome privilege: the chance to be present at the birth of my very first niece.

Only one of my siblings is married, and Bryan’s an only child, so my sister’s kids are (so far) my sole chance at aunt-hood. She has two boys already and I’d have loved another one just as much, but I am thrilled that Branwen had a girl instead.

(I’m already plotting matching Christmas dresses for our... READ MORE 


Sir Hubby

Acts of Extreme Nobility

When Paul and I got married sixteen years ago, I counted on lots of romance—him bringing home flowers every so often, him carrying me through fields of poppies, perhaps the two of us enjoying some wildly romantic dancing in the kitchen while our supper simmered on the stove.

Fast-forward to the present and while some of these gestures have come to pass (and they are lovely gestures indeed) I continue... READ MORE 


Your Most Important Relationship

Coffee Talk: Marriage

(Join each day’s Coffee Talk discussion: Mon: Parenting; Tues: Open Forum; Wed: NFP; Thu: Marriage; Fri: Education; Sat/Sun: Homemaking)

Struggling in your marriage? Have some relationship advice to share? Have a marriage success story to share? Have a man/woman question? This weekly thread is the place to do it.

Come on in and join the conversation!


Love

A musical look at love....

A special thanks to Sr. Margaret Kerry, FSP, who shared this on Facebook today.  I loved this video - stunning visual effects and an examination of what “true love” really means.


The Last Day—Please Pray With Us

Faith & Family Community Novena Day 9

Please join us in praying for all members of our Faith & Family Live community.

Together, we are invoking the help of St. Isidore of Seville, patron saint of the internet.

Saint Isidore of Seville
Almighty and eternal God,
who created us in Thy image
and bade us to seek after
all that is good, true and beautiful,
especially in the Divine Person
of Thy only-begotten Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ,
grant... READ MORE 


For Charity and Patience

Faith & Family Community Day 8

Please join us in praying for all members of our Faith & Family Live community.

Together, we are invoking the help of St. Isidore of Seville, patron saint of the internet.

Saint Isidore of Seville
Almighty and eternal God,
who created us in Thy image
and bade us to seek after
all that is good, true and beautiful,
especially in the Divine Person
of Thy only-begotten Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ,
grant... READ MORE 


To Do All Things In Love

Faith & Family Community Novena Day 7

Please join us in praying for all members of our Faith & Family Live community.

Together, we are invoking the help of St. Isidore of Seville, patron saint of the internet.

Saint Isidore of Seville
Almighty and eternal God,
who created us in Thy image
and bade us to seek after
all that is good, true and beautiful,
especially in the Divine Person
of Thy only-begotten Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ,
grant... READ MORE 


Direct Our Thoughts and Words

Faith & Family Community Novena Day 6

Please join us in praying for all members of our Faith & Family Live community.

Together, we are invoking the help of St. Isidore of Seville, patron saint of the internet.

Saint Isidore of Seville
Almighty and eternal God,
who created us in Thy image
and bade us to seek after
all that is good, true and beautiful,
especially in the Divine Person
of Thy only-begotten Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ,
grant... READ MORE 


For Guidance Online

Faith & Family Community Novena Day 5

Please join us in praying for all members of our Faith & Family Live community.

Together, we are invoking the help of St. Isidore of Seville, patron saint of the internet.

Saint Isidore of Seville
Almighty and eternal God,
who created us in Thy image
and bade us to seek after
all that is good, true and beautiful,
especially in the Divine Person
of Thy only-begotten Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ,
grant... READ MORE 


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