Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-10 of 22
 A Catholic Martha Stewart I Am Not... January 31, 2002
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
I signed up for this magazine and found it to be somewhat belittling of my place as a woman in the Catholic Church. Since I am a Catholic mom and I work part-time, I felt a bit out of touch with the editorial slant toward full-time, stay-at-home moms. Besides, I can find all the "decorating" ideas I want in Martha Stewart's magazine. I guess I wanted more challenging Catholic material and not all this "fluff." I've decided to not renew my subscription. I'm still looking for a Catholic magazine for me...
Leaves me searching, still... May 1, 2002
A. Russo (California)
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
This magazine leaves me searching - for something deeper, something more meaningful than how I should decorate my table and my house. Some of the advertisements are for companies that support very anti-Church, anti-Christian-Catholic companies and organizations. The articles seemed dumbed-down in language and word usage and rarely had anything to do with Catholic teaching and how to raise a Catholic faith filled family and how to be a Catholic woman in today's secular society.
FLASHY AND SHALLOW May 6, 2002
Dignified Diva (Malibu, CA)
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
I was hoping for a magazine that was steeped with how to live my life as a Catholic woman. Instead I found a fluffy, glitzy, and superficial magazine that didn't deliver. All this magazine does is to take the same old tired recipes, decorating ideas and craft suggestions that you can find in any secular magazine and sprinkle a tiny bit of Catholicism over them in order to appeal to Catholics. I was insulted and greatly disappointed. You can get better (and more) "Catholic living" ideas on the web for free.What I was delighted to find was Canticle Magazine. Canticle Magazine is geared toward all Catholic women...not just stay at home moms. Canticle is not preachy, angry, or "holier than thou". Instead, I found it to be a joyful and intelligent magazine. Canticle feeds my mind and my soul, plus challenges me to grow in my vocation as a Catholic woman. I can confidently give gift subscriptions to all the women I know. "Faith and Family" is very pretty looking, but very shallow.
 Intelligent, warm --and you won't believe how beautiful! February 12, 2003
jprj (Hyattsville, MD United States)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ever feel disappointed in the saccharine quality of products aimed at Christians? Faith & Family is a refreshing change of pace -- a beautifully photographed, intelligently written, insightful and useful magazine for Catholic and Christian families. You'll find articles to enrich your marriage and home life, insights into child-rearing at various stages, tips on bringing the feasts and fasts of the liturgical year alive in your home, practical answers to your questions about how to live the faith, plus crafts, recipes, book and music reviews and more. All from a deeply Christian perspective that is smart,positive, hopeful, warm, witty --but not syrupy. And you really won't believe the photography. Worth every penny!
Married or Single/Engaged...you'll feel proud to be Catholic February 14, 2003
Therese (Gaithersburg, MD)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Our family discovered this magazine 3 years ago, and found ourselves marveling at the life stories of real families, overviews of resources for any family and especially the section which describes weekly at least the history of courageous men/women of the Faith (aka the Saints!) We could start groups of families who read this magazine...We have in Gaithersburg, MD! Meeting each other we marvel at the good, and have a positive idea to share with each other/our husbands/families.
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