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The Catholic Review was recently honored by the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association, the Catholic Press Association and the Associated Church Press.

My favorite picnic spot is probably our backyard. No planning needed, and our boys can simply carry plates of food to a beach towel on the grass.When we feel more adventurous, we pack dinner and head to a local park with a playground.But when we have out-of-town cousins visiting—and sometimes even when

Yesterday afternoon we invited my parents and my sister and her four children to come for dinner. The children played until it was getting dark, and then we invited them to stay for fireworks.I tried not to overpromise. We don’t set off our own fireworks. We also don’t travel anywhere

We live so close to Washington, D.C., that it’s a little embarrassing that we’ve never really taken our children there. So, when my father, sister, and her four children decided to make a day trip to D.C. on Thursday, our boys and I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to tag along.Independence

The pace of life gets slower and sweeter each year during the summer season. People seem to smile more, children’s laughter is in the air, and the pace of life seems easier to handle.My favorite part of summer has always been the simple pleasures…Fresh fruit and vegetables, beautiful flowers in

Kendall doesn’t bother to extricate the hooey from the holy as she cobbles narratives from biographies, clips from newspaper obituaries and the occasional blog post from IMDb, a popular Internet source for movie, TV and celebrity news and information.