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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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Seventy-Seven Times

On brotherly forgiveness

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.  Francis Bacon

The scene played itself out this morning as it does about four times per week.  The younger brother, anxious to get out the door to school early so he could have time with his friends.  The older brother—the chauffeur—nursing a bad case of “senioritis” and wanting to eek out every... READ MORE 


"We Shall Be Like Him"

Hope from the Scriptures

This was the New Testament reading from Evening Prayer last night:

See what love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called children of God!
Yet that is what we are.
The reason the world does not recognize us is that it never recognized the Son.
Dearly beloved,
we are God’s children now;
what we shall later be has not yet come to light.
We know that when it comes to light
we shall be like... READ MORE 


Open Your Day, Insert Prayer

A 3-minute retreat might be just what you need

Lisa’s post yesterday about finding the perfect prayer time reminded me of a nifty little resource I like to use when life is busy and I find myself staring at a computer screen for way too long:

3-Minute Retreats from Loyola Press.

These mini retreats are an organized way to take a break from work and re-focus yourself with Scripture and prayer. You control how quickly you move through the brief... READ MORE 


How Nativity Really Happened

where's all that in the Bible?

I have a priest friend who wants to write a book about all the stuff we think’s in the Bible that isn’t: the “apple” in Eden, St. Paul falling from his horse (what horse?). Here’s the same idea, applied to the Christmas story. (With a polite nod to Creative Minority Report)

 


St. Paul ‘Names’ The Church

Session 8, St. Paul 101
AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

In the midst of the busy doings of the Synod on the Word of God and screening a new film biography of his predecessor, Benedict made time during Wednesday’s Audience to continue teaching us about St. Paul.

His theme this week is Paul’s relationship with the Church, and he opens by noting that Paul is the person who gave us the word:

this word—“iglesia” in Spanish, like “église” in French or “chiesa”... READ MORE 


The Bible Day & Night

The Scripture Synod & The Bible-a-thon

RAI, the Italian TV network, is broadcasting the Bible—in its entirety—all week long.

Benedict XVI did his part, reading from Genesis yesterday evening to kick off the event.  Here’s a livestream link .

During remarks at yesterday’s Angelus, the pope said the Biblethon is a fitting counterpart to the Synod on the Word of God, which Rachel writes about below.

Still feeling a little fuzzy on what a... READ MORE 


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