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Mary’s Assumption… My favorite reading and podcasts on the subject

  The Praises of Mary O how wondrous is the dignity of the glorious Virgin! She merited to become the mother of Him who is the strength and beauty of the angels and the grandeur of all the saints. Mary was the seat of our sanctification, that is to say, the dwelling place of the…

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Among Women Podcasts for Moms-to-Be… or new Moms…

I love producing the Among Women podcast and I thought I’d share a few recent podcasts that are very good for mothers-to-be, or for mothers who are still new to this vocation of motherhood. The most recent episode, AW 164,  features a conversation with Karen Minster from Paraclete Press, describing the role of Godparents, and…

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Among Women 164: Back from hiatus! Catch up with the latest podcast!

This week marks my return to the Among Women Podcast from a longish hiatus that included my time off for daughter’s wedding and a vacation. I review my experience as mother-of-the-bride as well as talk about the Pope’s visit to World Youth Day in Rio. In our saint segment we explore some quotes from Jane…

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Among Women 163: A Name for Eternity, with saint name researcher extraordinaire Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur

This time on Among Women we look at the beauty of being both Martha and Mary with an excerpt from author Lisa Hendey’s A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms, just one of the book in the Catholic Mom imprint series from Ave Maria Press. This episode also introduces another new book in the line, The Catholic…

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Among Women 162: Culture of Life Africa – How One Woman’s Letter started an international ministry

In this week’s episode of Among Women, I caught up longtime Among Women listener, Uju Ekeocha. She describes how she was blessed by the ministry of Among Women and how it deepened her faith and helped her strengthened her call to become a saint and be a force for good in the world. Over time she discovered…

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I want your comments about Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious — for a future Among Women podcast!

So, my book’s been out almost three months now. It’s been a wonderful experience to visit a few places to sign books and to share the book’s message. In the beginning it felt kind of awkward to sign a book for someone, but then I remembered how really nice it is to meet an Among…

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Among Women 161: Catholic Pediatricians Make a Difference!

Join me for a great new Among Women podcast episode featuring the lives of Catholic pediatricians and the good they bring to the world around us. This time around we’ll profile the life of St. Gianna Molla, a wife, mother and pediatrician who, in 1962, died heroically in the days following the birth of her…

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Catholic Mom kicks off today’s Blessed, Beautiful, & Bodacious blog tour: Give it a listen! (Yes, it’s an audio blog tour!)

Here’s a little introduction to the Ten Bodacious Basic… Ten Minutes at Time blog tour is all about: listen to ‘Blog Tour for “Blessed, Beautiful, & Bodacious”’ on Audioboo Author and media expert Lisa Hendey was an early advocate of my writing years back when Catholic Mom was Web 1.0. Back then, I think the site had…

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Among Women 159: Faith-filled women in the workplace

This week on Among Women I am joined by my guest, Mary Wallace — a wife, mother, college administrator, radio host, blogger, and a specialist in the field of human resources. Together we discuss women in the workplace, and the role that their faith plays there, courtesy of the dissertation research done by Mary as she earned her PhD. I’m…

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Powerful wisdom from Emily Stimpson & Angela Franks – both recent guests on Among Women

While I’m busy in my own corner of the world launching a book to make the gift of womanhood and the feminine genius better known, I have to just stop and offer some praise for the genius of some of the bodacious –most excellent– writers and teachers I know who are doing the same. I…

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