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Can you believe what a great new Holy Father we have? He’s a humble guy who used to ride the bus to his job as a cardinal archbishop. He turned down the papal apartment and instead opted to live in …
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Mary Beth Bonacci
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5/22/13
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Well, I may as well just put it out there. I turned 50 last month. Yup, 50. Five-oh. Half a century.
As I was pondering this at Mass last week, I remembered a feature article about me that …
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Mary Beth Bonacci
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4/17/13
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589 views
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1 comment
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Michael Schwartz succumbed to Lou Gehrig’s disease Feb. 4 after a nearly two-year battle. I worked with Schwartz at the Free Congress Foundation in the early 1990s, but hadn’t seen him for the …
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Mary Beth Bonacci
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2/20/13
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Mary Beth Bonacci
Apparently chivalry has once again become a hot-button topic.
I know because (a) I read a pro-chivalry article in, of all places, The Atlantic magazine; (b) I wrote a …
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Mary Beth Bonacci
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1/23/13
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392 views
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I was talking to a friend the other day who told me about her teenaged son. He is, apparently, a big hit with the ladies. She’s concerned about premature sexual activity, so she had a talk with …
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Mary Beth Bonacci
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12/12/12
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704 views
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Apparently Barack Obama is a big hit with the single ladies.
I’m not talking about Barack Obama the man, who by all accounts is a faithful husband and devoted father. Rather, I’m referring to …
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Mary Beth Bonacci
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11/28/12
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621 views
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Welcome to the Year of Faith.
Personally, I’m looking forward to it. The church has called us to deeper conversion in Christ, to deepen our relationship with Him, to turn …
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Mary Beth Bonacci
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10/17/12
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1116 views
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Why do you suppose Blessed John Paul II talked about the “new evangelization” and not the “new catechesis”?
Until recently, I was the director of evangelization and catechesis at a large …
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Marybeth Bonacci
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9/12/12
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3072 views
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A few weeks back, I had lunch and dinner at Chick-fil-A. There were a few other people there as well — in lines that snaked through the restaurant, out the door and into the parking lot.
I went …
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Mary Beth Bonacci
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8/29/12
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787 views
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Other columnists time their articles to be published on (or at least near) major holidays. I apparently write mine on those holidays. It’s a system that serves me beautifully, because I can fully …
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Mary Beth Bonacci
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7/25/12
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563 views
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