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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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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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Intimate Friendship With Christ

The Pope’s catechesis on St. Teresa of Avila yesterday amused me.

Near the start he recounts this cute scene from her childhood. As a 9-year-old girl, she was inspired by the lives of some martyrs she read about, so she ran away to be martyred.

“I want to see God,” said the little girl to her parents.

Alas, this piety didn’t last into adolescence…but we know she ended well!

Later he summarizes her... READ MORE 


"Love Itself Purifies The Soul"

On St. Catherine of Genoa

The Holy Father preached yesterday’s audience on the “third Catherine”—Catherine of Genoa.

(She joins St. Catherine of Siena and St. Catherine of Bologna.)

She’s best known for her teaching on Purgatory, but what fascinates me about her is that she was a married woman with an active apostolate who nonetheless attained the very heights of mystical union with God.

Raised in a pious home, she had a troubled... READ MORE 


Holy Women for Advent

the pope preaches the feminine genius

Pope Benedict has been delivering a smashing series of Audiences on the women saints of the Medieval Church.

At one point I thought to do a post on each address, but I’ve fallen behind.

Nonetheless, the lectures are so rich, the women and their qualities so varied (including figures I’d never heard of), it seems a shame not to at least collect the texts and note a few highlights—because the Pope... READ MORE 


God's Promises Greater Than Our Hopes

On Julian of Norwich

Continuing his series on women saints, the Pope spoke yesterday about Julian of Norwich.

She’s a good example of “spiritual maternity,” given that she was an anchoress—a hermit living withdrawn from the world—and yet

We know that Julian also received frequent visitors, as attested in the autobiography of another fervent Christian woman of her time, Margery Kempe, who went to Norwich in 1413 to receive... READ MORE 


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