Lyricist Kate Bluett wants us singing new songs unto the Lord
And she wants us to sing them everywhere, but especially at Mass!
Deirdre Mundy
Deirdre Mundy is a home-schooling mother of six who blogs at Mommy Writes.
Latest articles by Deirdre Mundy
The vocation crisis is not limited to the priesthood
Right now, it feels like the whole notion of "vocations" to anything is taking a beating.
Sharing Jesus with neighbors used to be common for Catholics. Here’s how it could be again
We are not a Church in retreat. We can’t be, because we have the Eucharist.
Where Dreher lost me on the “Benedict Option”
The future for Christians isn't about an ark or a monastic wall. It's about a well.
Come out of your tomb, and get to Confession
The apostles unbinding Lazarus represent the Church's ministers ... and you need them before Easter.
A Lenten experiment: Practicing the art of redirecting my gaze
Taking a lesson from a secular self-help book, this Lent I'm focusing on my focus.
“Tracking Mary”: How to teach your children about the Marian apparitions
On the occasion of the Fatima centennial anniversary, these Catholic moms came up with a Vacation Bible School program dedicated to Our Lady
When the “Christmas and Easter Catholics” are children
When kids don't go to Mass every week, there's no religious education in the world that can make up for it
Where are all the “30 days of thankfulness” posts this year?
Seeing other people giving thanks reminds me to be grateful to God, too, and to find my blessings
Are Americans more addicted because we do not know how to suffer, anymore?
In a world where suffering has been stripped of meaning, people become hopeless, and try to just kill the pain
The door is closing: No time for Mercy
We have work and school and chores and neighbors and cars and radios and we don’t stop, even for a moment, and take him up on his offer of Mercy.
I was not the kind of girl anyone wanted to talk ‘vocations’ with
Why not trust the Divine Farmer to tell the good soil from the bad?
Rebuilding the Catholic culture—with beer!
Re-evangelizing this post-Christian nation one growler at a time
Fulton Sheen and the Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Fighting over the corpse of a holy man is certainly positively medieval -- and that's a positive thing
Why I’m the worst catechist at my parish, and still signing up
In a less-than-perfect world, God can do a lot with the imperfect-but-willing
In Praise of the Small Parish
Dioceses may find it "practical" to eliminate small parishes, but is it really wise?
Politics Today: Looking for Messiahs in All the Wrong Places
Pope Benedict XVI helps a girl out, as she ponders the electoral shenanigans
The Little Lepers in My Living Room
When I dreamed about founding a religious order, I hadn't realized what I was inventing...