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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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What The Pope Has In Common With Danielle, Lisa & Rachel

Authors often talk about the pleasure of seeing their works in print for the first time. Here’s video of Pope Benedict being presented with versions of his latest volume of Jesus of Nazareth in different languages.

I think it’s fun to hear the Germans cooing with him over the audio version in his native tongue!

Are you reading this latest volume—which you probably know is about the events of Holy Week?


A Moment with Rachel

Listen in to our chat on this week's podcast

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On this week’s episode of Catholic Moments (click here to listen or click on the player above), I am thrilled to share my conversation with my friend and fellow blogger Rachel Balducci, author of the great new book How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?.  I know you hear Rachel regularly on our own Faith & Family Live Cast, but this chat gives a sneak peek into the writing of her new book and is simply a... READ MORE 


Princess Balducci Update

Isabel Annemarie Balducci was born at 10:00 pm last night, April 7, 2010.

Mother, father, brothers (and the entire internet) are on cloud nine.


Two Lucky Winners of Rachel's New Book

Here are the winners in our recent giveaway of Rachels’ awesome new book, How Do You Tuck In a Superhero?: And Other Delightful Mysteries of Raising Boys

Ellen Cavalo: absolutely love the title! My middle daughter is stationed with her husband overseas. They have little Gianna and just found out that they will have a Joseph this July. I’d love to send her a copy!

Stephanie: I love listening to all... READ MORE 


We're Giving Away Copies of Rachel's Book

Enter to win a copy of How Do You Tuck In a Superhero

I’m so excited for Rachel as she awaits the release of her (hilarious!) first (amazing!) (available for pre-order!) book, How Do You Tuck In a Superhero?: And Other Delightful Mysteries of Raising Boys.

You can listen to Rachel read excerpts and discuss some of the book’s content with Lisa and Rebecca in this week’s podcast. And now here’s your chance to win a free copy of this fabulous new book!... READ MORE 


Boy Moms and a Beautiful Book

Get a sneak peek at Rachel Balducci's new book!

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On this week’s podcast (click here to listen or click on the player above), we focus on Rachel Balducci’s fantastic new book How Do You Tuck In a Superhero?: And Other Delightful Mysteries of Raising Boys. To kick off the show, we share a great review of the book from Maryan Vander Woude. Available at AdoremusBooks.com.

During our first segment, Rachel reads from her chapter about “Rules I Can’t Believe... READ MORE 


Ahem ...

The lovely and talented Rachel is too modest to toot her own horn here, so I’ll do it for her ...

Y’all! Check it out!

Between Rachel’s book and Lisa’s upcoming book, The Handbook for Catholic Moms, next spring is looking like an exciting time for us here at Faith & Family.

Congratulations, ladies!


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