Keeping Your Kids Catholic

First, let me start off this post with a disclaimer. DISCLAIMER: I’m a non-expert. I have little kids. Half of this is theory; the other

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Family
Jennifer Mazzara

404 Error

My brain is not in the least interested in our symposium topic this week.  The address for “mercy” + “forgiveness” + “killing” NOT “animals” was

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Family
Rachel Zamarron

Why We Need Work

Last week  The Daily Caller broke the news feature about the Labor Department attempting  to ban farm chores. When I alerted my dad who is a life-long

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Jennifer Mazzara

Speed of Life

That’s a catchy, clever little phrase. “The speed of life.” David Bowie used it for a song. I think there was a movie. I don’t

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Leah Jacobson

Labor Lessons

When I first became pregnant at 22 years old I really didn’t understand or appreciate the miracle that was taking place within my body and

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Catholic vs. Public School

In the middle of a test the teacher caught a boy cheating.  According to her classroom policy she took the test and the boy was given

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Overheard from pulpit

One of my favorite blogging priests is Fr. Z.  Don’t ask me how to say his last name because I always get it wrong.  “Zoo-hls-doorph”

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Leah Jacobson

A Letter to Henry

*I want to note that the other Featured Blogger today, Bonnie Engstrom, and I did not know what topic the other was writing about.  Sometimes the

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another life to remember

Looking at pictures of the March for Life makes me happy, with a little twinge of “Oh-I-wish-I-coulda-been-there!”  All these people, many of them still students, interrupting

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Calah Alexander

Mercy

Recently, our house has been ringing with the wails of a 3-year-old girl. Morning, afternoon, and evening, Charlotte can usually be found sitting in a

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Expecting…

It’s been 3 months and 2 weeks since Cristina and I got married…..and the day has yet to come when I don’t wake up thanking

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Family
Nathaniel Gotcher

The Activism of the Ordinary

One of my heroes had a motto “Do the ordinary things extraordinarily” or something to that effect and gosh darn it if we as a

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Family
Brent Stubbs

To Be A Father

“Our Father who art in heaven…” When Jesus said, “when you pray say, Our Father” the colossal impact of this is lost on the modern

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Calah Alexander

Believing in Santa

About this time of year, moms in all corners of the blogosphere pull out their boxing gloves and prepare to battle to the death to

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Dear Santa,

Dear Santa, First, may I call you St. Nicholas? I’m much more comfortable  with that name. So St. Nicholas, now that Advent has begun I’m writing to

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Family
Joseph Koss

Love Multiplies, Not Divides

I will be honest, a week ago I was really scared. It was my wife’s “Due Date” with our second child, and I realized that

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Family
Bonnie Engstrom

We are very thankful

My husband and I are expecting our fifth child! Maybe you’ve noticed that a lot of my posts have included lists lately.  We can blame

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