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So far Kathy Schiffer has created 139 blog entries.
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St. Gabriel Possenti, St. Francis of Assisi, and the Lizard

By Kathy Schiffer|2016-03-16T19:31:52+00:00March 16th, 2016|

Image: Pixabay St. Gabriel Possenti grabbed the handgun, aimed at a lizard crossing the road, and pulled the trigger. Bam! With his first shot, he struck his target; flesh from the hapless lizard

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What If the Choice Comes Down to Hillary or Trump?

By Kathy Schiffer|2016-03-15T02:39:03+00:00March 15th, 2016|

It's not a happy scenario: What if, next November, the choice comes down to voting for Hillary Clinton or for Donald Trump? It's almost too late to avoid that fate; but if there is anything

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Shout for the King! The Easter Story for Children

By Kathy Schiffer|2016-03-13T15:46:30+00:00March 13th, 2016|

Thank you, thank you to Pauline Press for this cute and colorful Bible Activity Book to help children understand and appreciate the Easter story. Four- to seven-year-olds will learn about Jesus through games and puzzles,

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Time to Turn in Your “CRS Rice Bowl” Banks, Friends!

By Kathy Schiffer|2016-03-12T17:21:33+00:00March 10th, 2016|

Do you have a CRS Rice Bowl to return to your parish? When I was in grade school, more than a few years ago, we always looked forward to the Operation Rice Bowl campaign in

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Catholic Leaders Issue Open Letter Before Elections: STOP TRUMP!

By Kathy Schiffer|2016-03-07T23:17:44+00:00March 7th, 2016|

"Vulgarity, oafishness, shocking ignorance, and — we do not hesitate to use the word — demagoguery." Those are among the charges which 37 of America's leading Catholics have leveled against GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump. Princeton Professor

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Koontz’ “Ashley Bell”: A Great Read, But Not for Me

By Kathy Schiffer|2016-03-06T16:40:48+00:00March 6th, 2016|

If you follow what I write, perhaps you know that I am a huge Dean Koontz fan. My husband and I have collected probably every book Koontz has ever written, and I stash them all

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1.8 MILLION TILES! New Mosaic at Knock Depicts Marian Apparition

By Kathy Schiffer|2016-03-05T13:49:03+00:00March 5th, 2016|

On the evening of August 21, 1879, Mary McLoughlin and Mary Beirne, two women from the small Irish town of Knock, were walking home in a drizzling rain. As they reached the town church, they

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Why Are Some Catholics So Disdainful of the Human Body?

By Kathy Schiffer|2016-03-03T15:04:48+00:00March 3rd, 2016|

Why are some Catholics so darned afraid of the human body? Have they not read Genesis 1:31, when God saw everything that he had made and said that it was very good? I have been pondering

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One Man’s Amazing Journey Toward the Catholic Faith

By Kathy Schiffer|2016-03-01T12:42:06+00:00March 1st, 2016|

Richard Cole was not much of a believer: By his own admission, he didn’t pray, he didn’t worship. He was in recovery following years of alcohol abuse. Raised Methodist, he had fled the church of

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The Leap Year of My Despair

By Kathy Schiffer|2016-02-29T23:35:42+00:00February 29th, 2016|

I was in love. My boyfriend was working in his first after-college job as managing editor of a small chain of local newspapers; and I had an idea: When February 29 (Leap Year Day) rolled around,

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