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Bloggers: Get ready for World Mission Sunday! Join the ‘Bloggers with a Mission’ Campaign!

Some of my younger friends, Jonathan and Kristen Weiss, are Catholic Missionaries with Family Missions Company. They are passionate about Christ and the bringing the Gospel to the world. In two weeks the universal Church will be celebrating World Mission Sunday, on Oct 20, 2013. Bob and I have been able to support these and…

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A little bit more from Francis on a theology of women in the church….

Most Catholics I know have heard of or read the now-famous interview with Pope Francis in America magazine. I sincerely hope that you read it for yourself, as some of the media summaries of the interview are skewed as they don’t often report from the lens, or context, of faith. Yes, its 12,000 words, but…

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This makes me think… it’s one of the best definitions of spiritual motherhood I’ve read

Spiritual motherhood… means nurturing the emotional, moral, cultural, and spiritual life in others. All women are called to give birth — physically and/or spiritually. All women are called to be Christ-bearers, to receive divine life in the womb of their souls and bear Christ to the world. All women are called to see in Mary’s…

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To St Anthony, with love

For some ten happy years (1985-1994) I was a parishioner at St Anthony’s Church in beautiful Rocky Point, New York. It was a place where my husband and I began our family and raised little ones amidst a burgeoning beach community in a church with a wonderful crew of (mostly) Italian-Amercan priests who loved Jesus,…

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Among Women 167: Taking Issue with Idols… an interview with Elizabeth Scalia

This episode of Among Women features a return visit from The Anchoress — author-blogger Elizabeth Scalia, discussing themes from her new book,  Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life. In this interview we talk about rooting out hidden forms of idolatry in our own lives in order to deepen our faith in Christ. I also…

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This makes me think… about the privilege of being a woman who has borne a child

The special role granted to women in procreation… is highlighted by the fact that as soon as she has conceived (and conception takes place hours after the marital embrace), God creates the soul of a new child in her body. This implies a “direct contact” between Him and the mother-to-be, a contact in which the…

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The F.U.N. Quotient…. RiverDance edition (kids edition)

Don’t miss this video of this little baby pictured above. If the first :60 seconds don’t make you smile, your smile needs a re-boot! Sorry I could not embed the video, go find it here. 

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I’m on the road this fall…

I’m packing my bags and hitting the road. Come see me in San Antonio TX, Fort Lauderdale FL , Miles City MT, Exeter NH, and Prior Lake MN!

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