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Faith-Tinted Fiction: Some Tips for the Engaged Catholic Reader

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• Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
• Amy Welborn

Not Much About Mary
You’d think that in this post-secular age, faith-related fiction would be hard to come by, but of course it’s not. Au contraire. It’s booming. Besides the titles produced for the flourishing evangelical “Christian fiction” market, there’s… Read More

Is This a True Story?

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• Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
• Amy Welborn

For a good while — about two solid years, in fact, when she was six and seven, only one thing was as constant as her reading. It was the question she asked every time she started a book:
“Is this… Read More

Seeing is Believing

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• Wednesday, April 21st, 2004
• Amy Welborn

Another moment that brought this truth home to me occurred at The Cloisters, the branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that stands on a bluff overlooking the Hudson River. The Cloisters, dedicated to medieval art and architecture, is partly… Read More

Book Reviews: Lying Awake and Do Not Go Gentle

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• Monday, August 11th, 2003
• Amy Welborn

Two books are featured, one memoir and one novel, both of which confront us with miracles. In the memoir, a woman seeks a miracle.
In the novel, another woman considers whether to let go of one.
Both take us to… Read More

Something to Care About

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• Monday, August 4th, 2003
• Amy Welborn

Amy Welborn is a columnist for Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic News Service and a regular contributor to the Living Faith quarterly devotional. You may purchase her books in our online store, by clicking here.
Hey teens, why should you… Read More

Book Review: I Like Being Catholic

• Art
• Thursday, July 10th, 2003
• Amy Welborn

In a world filled, it seems, with “recovering Catholics” telling the world of either their still-simmering rage or now well-adjusted pity for all the pathetic souls still fumbling with their beads back in the pews, it’s nice to see a… Read More

Book Review: The Da Vinci Code

• Art
• Thursday, July 3rd, 2003
• Amy Welborn

Amy Welborn is a columnist for Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic News Service and a regular contributor to the Living Faith quarterly devotional. You may purchase her books in our online store, by clicking here.

Who says that Catholicism doesn’t… Read More

Book Review: The Life You Save May Be Your Own

• Art
• Thursday, June 12th, 2003
• Amy Welborn

Amy Welborn is a columnist for Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic News Service and a regular contributor to the Living Faith quarterly devotional. You may purchase her book in our online store, by clicking here.
The first thing to say,… Read More

Book Review: Signatures Of Grace

• Art
• Monday, June 2nd, 2003
• Amy Welborn

Signatures of Grace is a lovely book, and an invaluable addition to any Catholic’s library. In fact, it would be a great gift – for Mother’s Day, perhaps, for a favorite teacher, catechist, parish minister or priest as this school… Read More

Actions Louder Than Words

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• Saturday, May 31st, 2003
• Amy Welborn

At fourteen months, the baby is talking, and I’m fairly certain it’s real words he’s trying to say. Some of his utterances are clearer than others. I suppose I must admit that the clearest, at this point, are not words… Read More