Faith & Family Magazine

Faith & Family Magazine is a delight to read. Glossy. Professional.

So much of my reading is done online now I think I thought magazines like this were only for the Hair Salon! But the magazine felt good in my hands. Long ago we used to subscribe, before homeschooling, before names like Danielle Bean, Celeste Behe, Simcha Fisher, Susie Lloyd, Kate Wicker, and Elizabeth Foss were recognizable to me. Now they are names on my Facebook and Twitter, bloggers and book authors I read or have read. And they write and edit at Faith & Family...their names and the photos of other blog families I recognized made the magazine feel so comfortable, familiar.


But, alas, to the impetus. A self-centered one...my kids are in this issue! Lori Hadacek Chaplin included our eldest sons' and their Confirmations in the Extraordinary Form last Spring on pages 88+89. I especially appreciated that there was a description of the Sacrament and the way it was done up until recently and that they even boxed up a link to Sanctamissa.org for further reading on the Extraordinary Form, the Traditional Latin Mass. I bought 2 issues. One for each of them to keep in their memory boxes.

But I am thinking of subscribing again. I enjoyed reading the articles and as I plugged in recommended websites, I remembered what I liked about F&F long ago. I loved being directed to websites, vendors that I wouldn't have know about otherwise...AND the focus is Catholic! Besides Mater et Magistra, which I rave about, what other Catholic magazines are out there? Supporting Catholic vendors hopefully means their businesses will thrive. If, like me, Catholicism is the world you surround yourself in, then you might consider these magazines as well to support that passion....and find Catholicism celebrated with voices and faces you may already enjoy reading.

We want those voices "out there."