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The Magical Land of Narnia

November 26, 2008

The recent movies The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and Prince Caspian have stirred a renewed interest in the novels written by C.S. Lewis, of which there are seven. Before the movies came out, I had only heard of the Narnia series in passing, and to be honest, I wasn’t particularly interested in [...]

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How Much is Too Much?

July 5, 2008

This post reminded me about something I have been meaning to write about for several weeks. Rush Limbaugh just renewed his contract for his radio program and is getting an “obscene” $440,000,000 for the new contract.
I have heard the words obscene and excessive thrown around a lot in regards to his and other celebrities’ salaries [...]

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Summer Slow Down? Don’t Let It!

July 5, 2008

After the rush for First Communion / Confirmation / Easter season ends, your store inevitably faces a business slow down heading into June and July. If you usually treat this as a time to kick back and hope that your Spring earnings will carry you through the summer, it’s time to change that now!
Summer should [...]

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Presentation of the Pallium During the Pauline Celebration

July 1, 2008

This weekend Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed the Pauline Year at the major basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls. Included in the festivities was the ceremonial institution of the pallia.

A pallium is a little-known vestment bestowed on an archbishop by a pope. This year in Rome Pope Benedict gave a pallium to 43 new [...]

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Catholic New Media Celebration Wrap-Up

June 28, 2008

After reading all the great postings about the conference, I really wish I could have gone. Hopefully they will be doing this again next year! For some great summaries of the conference take a gander here, here, here, here, here and here.
Before the conference started we had a few guest posts from other podcasters and [...]

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Catholic Summer Reading Winners Announced!

June 27, 2008

The voters in the 2008 election have spoken and the winners are:
1) Jesus of Nazareth
2) St. Francis of Assisi
3) Diary of a Country Priest

We heard grumbling that we stacked the deck by putting the Pope’s book on top and did notice some questionable voting activity from IP addresses designated to some “vatican.va” domain (whatever that [...]

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Catholic Family Kids Comment on Podcasting and the Catholic New Media Celebration

June 20, 2008

So, this is our first attempt at a podcast. Don’t expect anything fancy or technically perfect. In fact, the twelve-year-old that I interviewed for this has far more experience at podcasting than I do. A little bit of humbling is never a bad thing.
Go find out more about the CNMC sponsored by SQPN. And be [...]

Catholic Family Kids Interview [10:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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A Study in Customer Service

June 19, 2008

It isn’t often that you can experience the opposite ends of customer service within a couple of hours. Today I had the opportunity to experience the best and worst in customer service.
First, the best: A few months ago we changed our health insurance company and the agent was one of those fortunate people who actually [...]

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Tom Smith From the Catholic CD of the Month Club

June 19, 2008

If you haven’t heard of Lighthouse Media and the Catholic CD of the Month Club, you need to go check it out. For $5 a month you get a great CD on a Catholic topic featuring speakers like Scott Hahn, Fr. Corapi, Matthew Kelley and more! Why don’t you listen to a sample from this [...]

From Mormon Missionary to the Catholic Faith by Tom Smith [67:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Free Brideshead Revisited Study Guide Available

June 19, 2008

We have just added a new study guide for Brideshead Revisited to the Catholic Summer Reading site. You may have heard that there is a movie adaptation coming out this year from Miramax. I implore you to read the book this summer instead.
If you haven’t voted for the Catholic Books of summer, there’s still time!

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