Last year, I finished writing the rough draft of an online Catholic economics course for Seton Home Study School. (It should be available for credit by fall.) Prior to this, ...
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by Emily Molitor | We live in a society that is anti-hope. We are bombarded by stories of death and despair, rather than stories of hope.
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by Kevin Clark | St. Francis de Sales, a Bishop and spiritual writer, is best known for 'Introduction to the Devout Life'. Here are five of the things we can learn from him about virtue...
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by John Clark | According to recent reports, Pope Francis will be releasing an encyclical about the environment later this year.
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The process of Pope Francis being misunderstood is so common it could easily keep me busy day and night as an apologist. I wrote a book about it and compiled ...
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by John Clark | Pope Francis has been criticized by some Catholics for being liked by the world. Admittedly, he seems to be liked in unusual venues such as GQ, Time Magazine, and Elton John concerts.
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by Emily Molitor | Christmas break is a special and unique time together. College students return home, husbands take off work, and the grandparents come to town.
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by Lorraine Espenhain I’m reading 'The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity' by Julia Cameron. It's having such a profound effect on my life that I have to share what I am learning!
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by John Clark | As I grow older, I have begun to identify with the prodigal patriarch - not a commentary on my children or my parenting skills...
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by Angela Wilhelmi | Mary embodies four cardinal virtues that we should imitate in ourselves, so that she can lead us to Christ: Humility, Obedience, Modesty...
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by Lorraine Espenhain | You’re not angry at the individual at church who is involved in so many things. You’re angry at...
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by John Clark | Don’t mid-life crises usually involve buying a Corvette or Grecian Formula? Who has a mid-life crisis about the priesthood?
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by Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro Carámbula | We should venerate the Holy Family during the whole year, but particularly during Advent and Christmas...
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by Dave Armstrong | Our Protestant friends (particularly evangelicals) sometimes claim that all Christians are priests, and that there is no special class set apart from others in the Church.
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by Emily Molitor | My first instinct is to the wonderful world of inspiring blogs, online shopping, and pages and pages of recipes and crafts.
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Maria Nauman, a Featured Family on SetonMagazine.com, has hand-drawn and inked out a beautiful, full-page activity for you and your children to enjoy! Pin it up on your fridge, and ...
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by Michele Suner | How far is it to Bethlehem? Not very far. Shall we find the stable room Lit by the star?
Read More »Merry Christmas from Seton’s Featured Families!
It’s been another full year for families everywhere, and if you’ve been following the adventures and exploits of our Featured Families – or if you homeschool yourself – you know ...
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by Andrew Murphy | If we journey back almost 2000 years to the city of David to the small town of Bethlehem on the eve of the first Christmas...
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by Nikolai Brelinksi | When I left the church that night, wishing friends “Merry Christmas”, I felt that Christmas love in the air.
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