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Articles & Newsletters

Articles & Newsletters

A selection of campaign fundraising emails, book reviews, and magazine articles. 

Ten Truths You Need to Know About Postpartum Depression

Postpartum depression leaves many women unable to function both in their careers and as a mother. Here are ten truths that will help get you back on the road to recovery from depression.

Scientific research (thanks to ongoing federal funding!) is starting to focus more on women’s health. And the new statistics are saying that experiencing postpartum depression is totally normal.

Approximately 70 percent of all new mothers will experience at least some form of “baby blues” while, according to t

A Military Widow’s Journey of Faith

The stay-over at the hospital after giving birth was one of the toughest nights. Everyone had gone home. A constant churning in her stomach that wouldn’t ease now seemed even more noticeable. It was Sunday; Jay had died on Friday.

Jennifer’s mother and Jay’s parents had been with her all day, giving their support and sharing in the grief. A long line of family, friends and acquaintances had come in to offer their congratulations for the new baby and their condolences for the loss.

“The term ‘b

Immaculate Heart High School pays tribute to its own princess-bride, Meghan Markle

A deluge of photographers, reporters and cameramen descended on Immaculate Heart High School in Hollywood Hills in the wake of its former student’s engagement to Prince Harry, the ginger-haired sixth in line to the British throne.

The media came — and refused to leave — until they had found out what kind of formation Meghan Markle had received at the private Catholic school, and what this former-U.N. ambassador, lifestyle blogger and TV star was like as a high-schooler.

“She was feisty and spu

Jim Caviezel on his life as a Catholic actor: ‘Far better than I ever dreamed’

Rumors are swirling around Hollywood that Mel Gibson is in talks to make a sequel to the “Passion of the Christ” (2004), a movie that Jim Caviezel, who played the Latin- and Hebrew-speaking Jesus, said will be “the biggest film in history.”

But in the meantime, fans will have to satisfy their need for authentic Christian storytelling with Caviezel’s latest biblical film, “Paul, Apostle of Christ,” depicting the life of St. Paul (played by James Faulkner) and his friendship with St. Luke (played

Sex and labor trade victims speak out during Los Angeles march

“I knew my life wasn’t normal,” Du√±ia Zelaya said of her childhood. She vividly remembers the night her mother and stepfather dressed her in strange clothes and did her makeup before driving her to a bar to work as a sex slave. She can’t remember her age, but she was probably 7.

Her mother gave her a drink to “give her courage.” Her two sisters, who were older though still minors, were dropped off first and then she was left at a bar where a man was waiting for her.

On Jan. 14, Zelaya shared