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2014-12-26T14:01:54-05:00

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Notre Dame Professor Demonstrates What’s Wrong with Catholic Education – UPDATED

Last updated on: December 26, 2014 at 2:01 pm By Jennifer Fitz

(Scroll down to the bottom for updates.) Apparently you can be a professor in the theology department at Notre Dame, and think that: The religious teaching of complementarity holds that men and women have very different roles in life and in marriage, with men outranking women in most areas. No. Just no. To get you started, a few notes from the Catechism on the dignity of the human person: Every form of social or cultural discrimination in fundamental personal rights... Read more

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2014-12-26T16:29:06-05:00

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The Immaculate Conception: More Good News than Your Enemies Want to Admit

Last updated on: December 26, 2014 at 4:29 pm By Jennifer Fitz

The Feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8th, is a holy day of obligation in the United States, which means you need to go Mass. Answering some common questions: Dr. Ed Peters, Canon Lawyer, explains that no, you mustn’t try to kill two birds with one stone by counting a Sunday evening Mass as both your Sunday Mass and your Vigil of the Immaculate Conception Mass. But he adds, any two masses (on the appropriate dates / times) will do,... Read more

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2014-12-26T16:32:30-05:00

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To Make Things Beautiful is to Make Yourself Human

Last updated on: December 26, 2014 at 4:32 pm By Jennifer Fitz

In time for the Advent Wreath link-up at CatholicMom.com, my daughter put together this for us: She had to use boiling water to clean out the votive holders of the old crusted-on wax, left over after salvaging the burned-out candles and melting them down with a splash of vanilla extract to make herself a scented candle. Then she painted the inside bottom of each newly-cleaned votive glass either purple or pink, and put in a tea light. She found a... Read more

2014-12-26T16:33:25-05:00

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

Last updated on: December 26, 2014 at 4:33 pm By Jennifer Fitz

PEG suggested I share some examples of why I think the old Butler’s Lives is the best thing going. Here’s an excerpt from today, December 5th, from the life of St. Sabas: Among the stories told of St. Sabas is that he once lay down to sleep in a cave that happened to be the den of a lion. When the beast came in it clawed hold of the monk’s clothes and dragged him outside. Nothing perturbed, Sabas returned to... Read more

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2014-12-26T16:34:20-05:00

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

Last updated on: December 26, 2014 at 4:34 pm By Jennifer Fitz

Leah Libresco asks, “So, where should a gal go to meet some saints?” I replied in her combox, but others might have the same question. What you want, my brave and geeky friend, is the old 1956 edition of Butler’s Lives of Saints. As I told Leah: You do not want the updated (sanitized) bazillion-volume paperback thing, which is desperately bland. The 1956, in contrast, combines piety with deadpan academic wit in a way you just won’t find anywhere. Plus: Hundreds... Read more

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2014-12-26T16:37:31-05:00

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World Finance Executives Warn Vatican: Don’t Change a Thing – UPDATED

Last updated on: December 26, 2014 at 4:37 pm By Jennifer Fitz

UPDATED 12/12/2014 – Though I tagged this as “Satire” apparently it was mistaken for actual news. My apologies. One of the officials I originally “cited” requested I pull his name, as apparently the article was generating concerns from readers who thought the poor guy had in fact contacted the Holy Father. I gamely substituted a different randomly-chosen character to fill the slot. I assure you, even if world financial leaders are urging the Pope to reconsider this “financial transparency” thing,... Read more

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2014-12-26T16:38:37-05:00

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Finding Modest Clothes for Hard-to-Fit Teens and Tweens + my Compendium of Modesty Chat

Last updated on: December 26, 2014 at 4:38 pm By Jennifer Fitz

At CatholicMom.com this week, we continue the conversation about modesty by getting into the ugly part: How exactly do you find modest clothes for kids who were never that easy to shop for anyway? My big three tips, summarized: Consider size a starting point, not a constraint. Shop everywhere anyone sells clothes, and then some. Don’t be afraid to wield a safety pin in due season. I flesh it out and give you a little pep talk, including a bit... Read more

Polyester will kill you

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2014-12-26T16:46:15-05:00

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You Can Have Santa Magic Without Lying to Your Kids

Last updated on: December 26, 2014 at 4:46 pm By Jennifer Fitz

This post is not about “mental reservation.” This is about how it’s entirely possible to have all the wonder and magic of playing at Santa Claus — I maintain more wonder and magic — while still being entirely frank with your kids about the fact that it’s a game. A very good game. How We Got Here My husband and I were still fairly new Christians when our first was born. We took our newly rediscovered faith extremely seriously (as... Read more

2014-12-26T16:52:01-05:00

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MTF Sale!

Last updated on: December 26, 2014 at 4:52 pm By Jennifer Fitz

FYI I have no connection to Midwest Theological Forum other than that I’m a fangirl and I’ve done some reviews in the past. (Okay, if see them at a conference, I’m not above trolling their booth and making puppy eyes until they give me a new review book. But that’s it. And lately not even that, because I’ve been sitting home like a good girl.) But what you want to know is that they are having a 25% off sale... Read more

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2014-12-26T17:15:10-05:00

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Well Hello, Advent. We Meet Again.

Last updated on: December 26, 2014 at 5:15 pm By Jennifer Fitz

Someone reminded me it was Advent this Sunday. Yikes. But it doesn’t have to be that bad, and indeed it should not be, as Simcha reminds us. Here are our plans for 2014, thrown out there not as an example to emulate, but so that you can have that sordid Catholic reality-show experience without needing cable. 1. The Great Advent vs. Christmas Debate Left to my own devices, I’d cover my house in a giant purple tarp and not come... Read more

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