Why We Need Catholic Fiction for Teens
February 16, 2021
Danielle Bean Girlfriends, Ascension Press
Quote Me with Lindsay Schlegel: Carolyn Astfalk
March 1, 2021
Today we’re talking family, with words derived from Pope St. John Paul II’s Familiaris Consortio:
“Become who you are.”
Quote Me with Lindsay Schlegel
Cath-Lit Live! Episode 15
March 8, 2021
Cath-Lit Live
Faith, Family, and Fun: The Family the Plays Together
March 11, 2021
In the early days of our confinement brought on by the global pandemic, when I was contemplating whether a sterile field was necessary to bring groceries into the home and where our next package of toilet paper would come from, I ordered a playground ball.
While temperatures outside began to warm and my children were stuck learning behind screens for long hours each day, I dug around the mudroom for chalk and waited on the playground ball to arrive. A Four-Square ball, to be exact.
Catholic Mom
13 Simple Ways to Foster Devotion to St. Joseph
March 14, 2021
Any time is a good time to foster devotion to Saint Joseph in our families, but we’ve been given a wonderful opportunity to make a concerted effort to do so during this year dedicated to Saint Joseph.
Many adults are embarking on consecration to Saint Joseph using Father Donald Calloway’s Consecration to Saint Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father. While great for grown-ups, it’s not suited for use with children, especially young ones. So, what is there for families?
Catholic Mom
Reading With Your Kids – Treasures of St. Patrick
March 17, 2021
Authors from CatholicTeensBook.com are on the Reading With Your Kids Podcast to celebrate the third edition of their anthology series Treasures, Visible and Invisible, The third book in the series celebrates St. Patrick.The stories in this book take place in many different times and places throughout history. Guests include Antony Kolenc, Amanda Lauer, Carolyn Astfalk, T.M. Gaouette, Corrina Turner & Leslea Wahl.
Reading With Your Kids Podcast
Meatless Friday: Crispy Salmon with Potatoes & Asparagus
April 23, 2021
This meal is so pretty and delicious it works as a special Sunday dinner or a meatless Friday meal. It uses common, simple ingredients and only takes about an hour to prepare — less if you’re a quick chopper! Salmon isn’t something my mother ever prepared, and I think I was at least in my thirties before I ever tasted it — a bony mess at a diner. Fast forward a decade or so, and it’s one of my favorites! My husband occasionally grills or smokes it for summer dinners, but using this recipe was the first time I’d prepared it on my own, and it couldn’t have been easier.
Catholic Mom
Reading With Your Kids – Faith-Filled Fiction
May 1, 2021
Amanda Lauer & Carolyn Astfalk, two members of CatholicTeenBooks.com, talk to us about ways we can use books to talk about faith with our teens. Both authors agree that talking about faith-filled fiction can be a more comfortable way for families to talk about difficult topics.
Reading With Your Kids Podcast
Fully Trusting in God
July 24, 2021
In this week’s Catholic Mom Hangout, Carolyn Astfalk shares about challenging ways we are called to trust fully in God.
Catholic Mom
CFN Live
September 13, 2021
Catholic Faith Network
Meatless Friday: 5 Quick and Easy Dinners
November 26, 2021
If you spent Thanksgiving Day (and several days preceding it) in the kitchen, the last thing you want to do on the day after a big food holiday is prepare a complicated meal. Here are 5 of our writers’ favorite quick and simple meatless recipes, none of which include Tofurkey – plus hints for incorporating some Turkey Day leftovers. They’re all frugal and filling, and not fancy at all.
Catholic Mom
Tales with de Sales Podcast
December 14, 2021
Carolyn Astfalk is a Contemporary Romance Author. Her novel All In Good Time earned an honorable mention at the 2020 Catholic Press Association Book Awards. As president of the Catholic Writers Guild, she encourages other writers and authors to elevate their craft and reach their publication goals. Her Christmas love story, Ornamental Graces, is a great holiday read!
Tales with de Sales Podcast
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, CatholicMom
January 6, 2022
So-called “nighttime parenting” gets a bad rap. I can safely say that, now that all of my children regularly sleep through the night. (My children were each at least four years old before that happened with any regularity.)
Sleep disruption, for all its annoyance and the growing bags under my eyes, is the foundation of many warm memories of snuggling a newborn at my breast, rubbing the back of a toddler awakened by a nightmare, and reading picture books to a preschooler who can’t fall back to sleep.
Catholic Mom
Non-Didactic Chastity in Teen Fiction with Author Carolyn Astfalk
January 29, 2022
Today on the show, we are speaking with an author of a Catholic book on the upper age end of kidlit, young adult. Her book Rightfully Ours came out in 2017 and I wanted to highlight it this season because it is important that we don’t forget our teen readers, usually voracious readers, if they are given books that they actually want to read.
Theresa Kiser, Children’s Book Author
Central Pennsylvania Voices: Carolyn Astfalk
January 31, 2022
Holy Family Radio, WHFY 720AM