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A Song for Saint Joseph

By Sheila M. CroninPosted on December 26, 2025Posted in Articles, FeaturedTagged Christmas

My friend Beverlee Trindl and I attended Aquinas Dominican High School on Chicago’s south side. Our senior year we were asked by the choir director to compose a new carol for St. Joseph to be debuted in our upcoming Christmas pageant. Bev, a gifted pianist, and I had teamed up for other school events which[…]

Gift Guide: For the woman who is always busy

By Sarah GouldPosted on December 11, 2014Posted in FeaturedTagged gifts, Amy Welborn, Cooking, Knife, Catherine Doherty, audio books, Sarah Gould, gift guide, prayer, Christmas, Rosary, women, Companions of the Cross

I’ve been checking out gift guides lately. They range from the utterly ridiculous (for those who have everything) to the downright practical (for those who have nothing) and everything in between. So I didn’t pause for a minute when our blog editor, Meaghen, suggested I come up with a gift list for the busy women in your life.[…]

Christmas 1856-style

By Sarah GouldPosted on January 3, 2014Posted in FeaturedTagged Christmas, ice storm, American Girl Dolls, Sarah Gould

Ever seen American Girl dolls? The dolls are based on characters from different time periods and come with long, detailed stories about where they are from and what their lives are like. Addy is from the Civil War period, Caroline is from 1812, and Kit and Ruthie are from the Great Depression. I think if[…]

On the second day of Christmas…

By Carolynne EstisPosted on December 27, 2012Posted in FeaturedTagged family, Christmas, mercy, the Giver

So here we are on the far side of Christmas day. The sleepless nights of knitting and wrapping presents, hours of trying to find the perfect present for each person, the cooking, the cleaning, and the decorating are all finished. We made it to Mass, we had enough food for everyone, lots of nice presents[…]

But for the grace of God

By Michael ThompsonPosted on December 25, 2012Posted in Columns, Editor's CornerTagged Dickens, God bless us everyone, judging, charity, love, Christmas, Guest editorial, Michael Thompson, The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens

Every Christmas my family and I read aloud Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. And every Christmas we thoroughly enjoy it and are impressed with how applicable it is to the world today—maybe even more so than when it was written. I guess it is like how I imagine really good wine that gets better with age[…]

Truth and contradiction

By Carolynne EstisPosted on November 21, 2012Posted in FeaturedTagged doublethink, freedom is slavery, 1984, ignorance is strength, George Orwell, holidays, Thanksgiving, American Thanksgiving, Christmas, family, media, economy, babies, Carolynne Estis, birth control, Obama, war is peace

Yesterday, my sister (who is no longer pregnant), my new nephew, my niece, my brother-in-law, and I went grocery shopping. This was my sister’s first post-baby shopping trip and, understandably, she got a bit tired about three quarters of the way through. She decided to go sit down and leave my brother-in-law and me in[…]