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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Pursuit of hoppiness

“Take one down, pass it around…” and let good times roll.  Today we live in the early days of the New Evangelization.  Beyond all catechetical

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Life
Ink and Quill

To Know and to Love

It’s a commonplace we’ve all heard in one form or another: “Love is blind.”  But is it really?  It may be true that our passions,

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Columnists
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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Columnists
Kayla Peterson

Overwhelmed

Everyone tells you how hard marriage is. They warn you against letting the sun go down on your anger, give creative ideas for date nights

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Columnists
Julie Machado

Is Being Single a Failure?

A wise friend once asked me, “Do you want to marry him or do you just want to get married in general?” Am I really

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Columnists
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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Relationships
Brandon Vogt

Dance of the Porcupines

Porcupines generally have two methods for handling relationships: withdrawal and attack. They either scurry away, looking for the nearest tree, or they stick out their

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Catholic Education
Ink and Quill

Apologia pro vitis suis

“It may easily be conceived how great a trial it is to us to write the following history of ourselves; but we must not shrink

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Books
Bob Waruszewski

So, How Far Can We Go?

So, how does a Catholic date in the modern world? Granted, pop culture gives us a picture of what we should avoid, but that does

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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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Columnists
Guest Writer

Hear Our Prayer

Guest Post by Elizabeth Hoxie Our 5 month old is alternating between chomping on my knuckle, sucking on my husband’s pant leg and screaming at

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Columnists
Anna Williams

GKC for Valentine’s Day

Chesterton gets it right again: The revolt against vows has been carried in our day even to the extent of a revolt against the typical

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Columnists
Guest Writer

Love the V-Day

 Guest post by Lynn Hale. How I Learned to Stop Wearing Black and Love the V-Day: A Perennially Single Gal’s Perspective We all know how

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Relationships
J.R. Baldwin

Don’t Buy Me Love

The little girl I babysit likes to give me her art. As it is now February, she is currently making Valentines. She asks me how

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Columnists
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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