By Mary DeTurris PoustToday's featured Catholic mom-writer is Cathy Adamkiewicz, communications director and editor of PIME World Magazine and the author of ...
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Well, I received a new title today: Apostle to the 'Idiots,' which is the headline from an In Person feature on me in this week's National Catholic Register. On ...
If you took one look at the small extra bag I'm bringing with me on vacation, you would swear I was going on retreat and not to the New Jersey Shore with its ...
This book is perpetually on my nightstand, my kitchen table, my desk, my coffee table. Really, it seems I'm almost never without it. I read it constantly -- and ...
A few months back, a colleague put me in email contact with Justin Catanoso, author of My Cousin the Saint: A Search for Faith, Family, and Miracles. Justin was ...
If you have small children and you bring them with you to Mass, you probably know all too well the challenges of not only keeping them quiet but of engaging ...
The Denver Catholic Register ran a story about my book, “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Catholic Catechism,” in this week’s edition. You can check it out by ...
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver sent me an endorsement for my book today, something that fills me with gratitude and humbles me. The blurb -- or at least an ...
I would just like to thank Hannan Adely of The Journal News for the very nice article she wrote about me and my book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Catholic ...
OK, so the tornado watch and torrential rain probably didn’t help my book signing on Saturday, but it was worth the three-hour ride to Raritan, N.J., if only to ...
Hey, I’m back from New York and the papal visit, and just in time to tell you about my first experience on podcast. That’s right. You can now download me from ...
With so much going on with the papal visit, it’s hard to find time to think or blog about anything else. But here’s some book-related news worth sharing. Gary ...
Good news folks. I received word from my publisher, Penguin/Alpha Books, that a second printing has already been ordered for my latest book, The Complete ...
So I finally presented a signed copy of my book to Bishop Howard Hubbard of Albany today. It was a very nice visit; the girls and Dennis came along. Noah was at ...
The Curt Jester reviewed my book today, telling readers that it is “a quite useful addition to the number of books concerning the Catechism.” If you want to ...
If you happened to read the brief “profile” on me in today’s Times Union(and even if you didn’t), I would like to give you the “director’s cut,” the full and ...
Word on the street -- or at least the streets of Boston -- is that my book was being sold ahead of schedule at Barnes & Noble. What? No security a la Harry ...
About 24 hours from now my new book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Catholic Catechism (Alpha/Penguin), will be available online and in stores. Up until now ...
By Mary DeTurris Poust
with Theological Advisor David I. Fulton, STD, JCD
Published by Alpha/Penguin, March 2008
Imprimatur from Bishop Paul Bootkoski of ...
I’ve been in the business of the Catholic press for a long time, so long that sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that I’m not just writing about any ...