NFP as a Mama of Three
It’s the end of NFP Awareness Week, so I’m going to throw in a few cents as a mama with three kids under three. Natural
It’s the end of NFP Awareness Week, so I’m going to throw in a few cents as a mama with three kids under three. Natural
On March 15, 2013, I published my first essay on Ignitum Today. Unfortunately, my original piece, “A Theology of Oz the Great and Powerful: A Movie
Some of us Catholics count our “Catholic credentials” by our knowledge of obscure catholic words; some of us by how many bishops we can name;
I was recently invited to read and review A Single Bead. Written by Stephanie Engelman (who blogs over at A Few Beads Short) this beautiful
When I imagine liturgists, this is what comes to mind: Inculturation, the adaptation of liturgical texts, languages, rites, and, most especially, of music, to respect
Multiple times I have written about the struggles of being a goal-oriented person, about the difficulty in surrendering when my first instinct is to try
It seems as though New York City is still in a daze after our visit from the Holy Father last week. He was here for
My husband works at our Archdiocesan seminary, and we try to meet him for Mass there at least once a week. The other day, I
Recently, I was watching the movie There Be Dragons about St. Josemaria Escriva and the Spanish Civil War, and I began thinking about the call to
My mother is from the Azores Islands, which are part of the country of Portugal. They are a group of nine islands between Portugal and
Enviably, I recently canvassed a room full of young people, my students, about church attendance. The occasion was an all-school Mass earlier that day. A non-Catholic student broached
Last month I wrote a post analyzing the National Geographic cover story entitled “Pope Francis Remakes the Vatican”. I read the article skeptically, expecting to come
Real Life Radio is a new Catholic media, focusing on relational evangelization. Based in the US, it delivers a range of programs through mobile streaming
I was born in the mid-1980s, and the majority of my early faith formation happened in the 90s. There are many good things that came
On the way to work one day, you get into a car crash. The hassle aggravates you. But in a phone conversation with your insurance
I would like to say that my faith is uncomplicated — to say that I accept and embrace every teaching of our Church with a gleeful
I’m not changing my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other social media profile pictures. There’s a thing going around in light of the Supreme Court decision
As someone who works full-time, teaches part-time, and is raising two young children with my wife (who also works full-time), I can often say that
One Christmas Eve I had the flu. While my family went to Lessons and Carols, I wrote a poem about the pain Mary endured to
I can’t stop talking about my daughter. Well, I could, but I have absolutely no desire to. I want to take a zillion more pictures
American culture, through generations of inherited ignorance, perpetuates many false ideas about the Catholic Church’s teachings about women. You can find the caricatures in almost any television