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August 2015

August 26, 2015

What I’m Reading: For the Union and the Catholic Church by Max Longley

Worth noting from the review pile: For the Union and the Catholic Church: Four Converts in...

August 21, 2015

Why Kolbe Academy for My Boy, In One Picture

The boy is headed out to spend the weekend with some family friends (adults, not...

August 19, 2015

Easy, Effective, No-Cost and Low-Cost Catechist Training

It's the time of year when desperate directors of religious education drag parishioners out of...

August 03, 2015

Family Honor – Family-Centered Chastity Education – Q&A and Online Course Info

Three follow-ups re: Family Honor: I had some questions about Family Honor that I'd like to...

June 2015

June 22, 2015

Something Beautiful: A Short Guide to Praying as a Family

In my mailbox this month: A Short Guide to Praying as a Family, recently released by the...

June 14, 2015

What Not to Read When You’ve Got a Rash

I don't have a rash, so I can read this book: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

What Not to Read When You’ve Got a Cough

Tip for you: Don't read a book about the history of tuberculosis while you're laying...

March 2015

March 17, 2015

New from Margaret Rose Realy: A Catholic Gardener’s Spiritual Almanac

I just received Margaret Rose Realy's latest book, A Catholic Gardener's Spiritual Almanac. I've had a...

March 16, 2015

May You Skip Your Penance on St. Patrick’s Day?

I have an irrational aversion to dressing matchy-matchy with the liturgical calendar, which backfired Sunday....

March 10, 2015

A Patron Saint for Rabble Rousers and their Bishops

When I answered Tom McDonald's How I Pray series, one of the pile of question marks...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Something Beautiful for Lent: Cultivating God’s Garden by Margaret Rose Realy

The book I've just finished reading is Margaret Rose Realy's Cultivating God's Garden Through Lent. I'm...

February 11, 2015

Screwtape vs. Slubgrip: Fan-Fic? Or do GKC, Belloc, Knox, Lewis, & Tolkien Have a New Colleague?

Fr. Dwight Longenecker has released his second Screwtape-style novel, Slubgrip Instructs. C.S. Lewis fans are understandably...

January 2015

January 07, 2015

The Real Presence and My Reversion to the Catholic Faith

My reversion to the Catholic faith was in some ways launched in full force when...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Being Someone New for 2015

Two links to my work elsewhere that deserve your attention as we start the new...

December 11, 2014

IVF, Torture, and Other Hot Moral Topics: Do the Ends Justify the Means?

The topic of ends-vs.-means has been circulating a bunch lately. Are you allowed to do...

December 11, 2014

As Morning Breaks: 2015 Gospel Reflections for Every Day of the Year

Now out from CatholicMom.com: As Morning Breaks, Daily Gospel Reflections. It's available as a Kindle...

December 07, 2014

To Make Things Beautiful is to Make Yourself Human

In time for the Advent Wreath link-up at CatholicMom.com, my daughter put together this for...

December 05, 2014

From Butler’s Lives: If the Lion Won’t Behave, It Will Have to Live Elsewhere

PEG suggested I share some examples of why I think the old Butler's Lives is...

December 04, 2014

Which Saint Book Do You Want for Christmas? This One.

Leah Libresco asks, "So, where should a gal go to meet some saints?" I replied in...

December 02, 2014

MTF Sale!

FYI I have no connection to Midwest Theological Forum other than that I'm a fangirl...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

The Grace of No #GraceofYes

I've joked all summer that I need Lisa Hendey to write me a companion volume...

November 12, 2014

Book Review: The Salvation Controversy by James Akin

The topic of Catholic vs. Protestant views of salvation has come up several times in...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Why Being a Writer Isn’t as Obvious as All That

Karen Kelly Boyce has a good piece up at the Catholic Writers Guild on cementing...

October 15, 2014

The Go-to Guide for New and Struggling Catechists Now Out in Kindle

Something fun: I was putting together my author bio for the 2015 CatholicMom.com Gospel Reflections...

October 03, 2014

Chris Tollefsen on the Case Against Incest

(UPDATE: Link fixed.) It just came to my attention that Chris Tollefsen has an essay...

October 01, 2014

The Feast of Small Things with Great Drama + My Favorite Calendar

It's the feast of St. Therese, and I have a serious post coming up some...

September 2014

September 27, 2014

Be Catholic: Fight the Tyranny of “Fitting In”

My latest at New Evangelizers is up: Catholicism is for People Who Don't Fit In....

September 17, 2014

Something Fun: The Secrets of the Southern Appalachians Unveiled

New book out from one of my college friends* and her trusty colleague: Exploring Southern...

September 15, 2014

When your marriage is in dire straits . . . there’s a book for that.

It is with great joy that I pass onto you the news of Dr. Greg Popcak's...

September 08, 2014

Catholic Education: You Can’t Serve Two Masters

One of the reigning errors of our insecure, perpetually-offended culture is the Approval One is...