children

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Kids, pt. 1

by Cari Donaldson October 25, 2012

Did I ever tell you that when we got married, Ken and I didn’t want children?

I feel like this is something I would have told you
I can see you scanning over my bio, re-reading the part where it…

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FSSP School in Ottowa implements Catholic Art Curriculum Based on the Writing of Benedict XVI

by David Clayton October 11, 2012

A Curriculum that Incorporates Pope Benedict XVI’s thoughts from his book The Spirit of the Liturgy. I have featured before work by the Canadian Orthodox sculptor Jonathan Pageau. I admire Jonathan’s work and what is useful for a blogger like…

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Scripture Speaks: 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time

by Gayle Somers October 5, 2012

The Pharisees ask Jesus a question about divorce.  Why did He answer their question with one of His own?
Gospel (Read Mk 10:2-16)
In Mk 10:1, we read that Jesus “went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan,…

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Are Catholic Schools better than Public?

by Marisa Pereira September 1, 2012

Either kids have just started a new school year or their first day is right around the corner. For many parents it’s a time of stress – wondering if we’re doing all we can to ensure the best education for…

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Weekly Q&A plus Welcome!- Literary edition

by Daria Sockey August 8, 2012

Welcome, Jordan and Judith to Coffee&Canticles. Thrilled to have you here. Also thrilled with the title of Jordans blog, An Ever Fixed Mark (“fixed” to be pronounced with two syllables in the archaic fashion: fix-ed. ) That title comes from…

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Mohawks and Personal Expression

by Cari Donaldson May 31, 2012

So instead of sitting on my armchair-turned-throne of laziness, moodily brooding about all the things I’m recently very bad at (list includes, but not limited to: routine personal hygiene, attention to housework, and motivating certain children to just finish their…

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How the Way of Beauty Atelier has helped a Young Architect to Move Forward in his Career

by David Clayton May 22, 2012

An architecture student who attended a drawing class in last summers the Way of Beauty program at Thomas More College in New Hampshire tells how what he learnt about traditional proportion has improved his designs and enabled him to get…

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Why Have Children?

by Michael Cook April 27, 2012

Is it good to have children? Most people would think so, but there is a range of views amongst utilitarian bioethicists. Rebecca Bennett, from the University of Manchester, believes that having children is just another irrational experience like taking recreational…

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When Kids Complicate Your Life

by Daria Sockey March 6, 2012

Have you ever noticed that the normal trials of life are always   worse when you have children? Back when I was single, or newly married, getting sick wasn’t so bad. To take a day off of work and curl up…

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The Illegtimacy Rate and Us

by William Murchison March 6, 2012

Oh, have we got problems as a country and as a people — not all of them connected with Iranian nuclear ambitions, the eurozone crisis and Mitt Romney’s inner feelings about family dogs on the family station wagon roof.
News…

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