Friends, thanks for being patient over the past week while I was offline and vacationing with family. For those of you who don’t know me well, let me share that I am first and foremost a mom. My sons have grown up far too quickly, so when I have a chance to have all four of our family members together in one place at one time, it feels like a private victory. All too soon (in the end of September)... Read more
Greetings from New York! Sweet Tweets is late today — but not because of contributor and friend John Clem, the Director and Media Minister at Catholic Web Services (http://catholicws.com/). He had them in bright and early! It’s late because this mom was out partying with her boys until 3:30 am. Not the hours I’m used to keeping, but so fun! I’m very happy for John’s compilation of the best tweets of this week since I’ve missed so much while on vacation. Here... Read more
Greetings from New York City, where I’m currently vacationing with family. Things may be light here on the blog for the next few days as I make the most of one of my few opportunities to have all four of my family members together. We arrived last night and I’ve been thoroughly unplugged for about the past forty eight hours. I did seen enough news to learn of the incredibly sad train accident in Spain and to have an update... Read more
Courtesy of the blog of the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation today comes rare video footage of Venerable Fulton from the early 1930’s. Per the video’s Youtube description: Fr. Fulton Sheen returned home from his continued studies overseas and received a warm welcome as featured guest in the early 1930’s and attends Mass with Bishop Schlarman at the Guardian Angel Home (orphanage), Peoria, IL, USA Sadly, the video is silent, but perhaps this gives us even more impetus to take in... Read more
I was in “college orientation zone” for the past three days — believe it or not, without wifi (fodder for another post!) — so I have been pretty out of sync with news. But a quick look at Twitter here at the airport let me know that the highly anticipated royal baby has indeed been born. My mind immediately went to this article I’d recently seen on the naming of that baby. I’ve also heard that traditionally, a royal baby’s... Read more
I decided to share the two most recent episodes of my new television show, “Making the Grade”. This program, which highlights Catholic Education trends and topics, airs monthly on KNXT and on Youtube. In these two episodes, we take on the topic of “Forming Student Leaders”. In the first episode, we meet two current high school students. The second episode features a great conversation with a current Catholic high school administrator from Garces Memorial High School in Bakersfield, California. Episode... Read more
As of today, friends who are interested in praying for the recovery of Catholic blogger and speaker Thomas Peters can find updates at a new website at http://tpetersrecovery.blogspot.com/. Some helpful features of the site include updates on Thom’s medical condition, information about praying with others for his complete recovery, as well as an address where you can send a card and well wishes. The site also indicates that there will soon be information on concrete ways to be of support to... Read more
Today’s news about Pope Francis’ appointment of a Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Organization of the economic-administrative structure of the Holy See has me pondering the commission’s members: Dr. Joseph FX Zahra (Malta), President Msgr. Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda (Secretary of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs), Secretary Mr Jean-Baptiste de Franssu (France) Dr. Enrique Llano (Spain) Dr. Jochen Messemer (Germany) Ms. Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui (Italy) Mr. Jean Videlain-Sevestre (France) Mr. George Yeo (Singapore) I enjoyed watching this Rome Reports video... Read more
How is it already Friday? I’m still working on my Monday “to do” items! A great thanks to my good friend John Clem, the Director and Media Minister at Catholic Web Services (http://catholicws.com/) for compiling the follow list of “not to be missed” stories from this past week (July 13 – July 19): Papal Tweet: “Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.” (Pope Francis) JPII Canonization may prove a boon to Washington, DC shrine... Read more
Have you hear the controversy swirling around the “selfie” of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its August cover? The cover text calls him a “monster”, but folks are complaining that this particular image glorifies someone who perpetrated such horrific acts. Not having read the article myself, I turned to this article at USA Today for an update. A preface to an article at RollingStone.com addresses the issue head-on: Our hearts go out to the victims of the Boston Marathon... Read more
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