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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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Kids and the Big Questions

Mama, where was I before I was?

My daughter loves to look at our wedding pictures, at Mama and Daddy all dressed up. She likes to talk about our wedding, too, and I tell her all the details she wants.

She did surprise me one day, though. “Mama, remember when you and Daddy got married? And I was there?”

“Sweetheart, you weren’t.”

(In a sense she was, but I don’t think “twinkle in your father’s eye” is a concept she’s ready for yet.)... READ MORE 


Modern Day Evangelist

How do I say that in a tweet?

Currently I am preparing for the comprehensive exams for my master’s degree in dogmatic theology at Holy Apostles College. Luckily one of my friends (from Christendom College) is a professor at Holy Apostles and he agreed to meet with me weekly to go over the material.

We are poring over topics such as, human happiness, the ethics of marriage, sin, and even human freedom. You’d think with all this... READ MORE 


Students Hungry for the Truth

and other lessons from theology bloopers
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Tom Beaudoin gathered this collection of theology bloopers from undergrads at three colleges.

Here’s one:

“After reading Martin Luther, I am thinking of becoming protest. Protestant theology teaches “faith alone,” also known as ‘sola fillet’ or ‘sola feta.’”

Never write essays on an empty stomach might be the lesson there.

Though I’d like to think there really was such a thing as “dessert asceticism.”


The Church’s Constant Teaching

Catholic doctrine on the subject of abortion has never wavered

You probably caught the recent incident where Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a self-professed Catholic, told an interviewer she can’t say for sure when life begins, and also mentioned that the Catholic Church does not have a historically consistent teaching on the topic.

If you missed the incident, you can catch fellow Faith & Family Live! blogger Rebecca Teti’s coverage here and here.

Needless... READ MORE 


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