You all make me laugh, sharing True Confessions of Liturgically Slacker Parents. I honestly do appreciate all those lovely blogs I made fun of – they’re pretty and inspiring and the parents who write them do a far, far better thing than I ever could. And would all cheerfully admit the chaos that lies behind…

Cindy Wooden of CNS blogs on the Pope’s Advent wreath – with red candles, in the German style. He met with representatives of the Baptist World Alliance: This meeting in Rome is the second round of ongoing discussions that Members of the Baptist World Alliance are holding with the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.…

The blogger at Revolution 21 writes: Today, in all likelihood, is the darkest day in the 153-year history of Omaha. What happened at Westroads Mall was horrific almost beyond description.   Please pray for my city, a great place to live that never saw this coming — at Christmastime, no less. Then again, who the…

You know those crafty-artsy-hipster-crunchy-parenting-homeschooling blogs where they’re always posting photos of the kids’ projects, which are always very cool, primitive yet winningly elegant in said simplicity, displayed against the background of the Mission furniture in their Craftsmen bungalows or their farmhouse and if they’re Catholic, Pius and Benedicta got it all done in between their Latin and Greek lessons? And…

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