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The Catholic Mom Fall 2025 Book Club: Real Moms of Real Saints

Catholic Mom announces their Fall 2025 Book Club selection: Real Moms of Real Saints by Colleen Pressprich! Learn more about joining this unique online book club... Our Fall 2025 Book Club selection is dear to our hearts! In Real Moms of Real Saints, Colleen Pressprich gets real about every mom's need for a tribe: a community of other women whose bonds of trust run deeper than simple friendship. We need that tribe here on earth, but sometimes we forget about our heavenly tribe! We can draw on the loving motherly examples of women who were moms of saints (and saints-to-be) as diverse as Saint John Bosco, Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, and Blessed Stanley Rother, among others. In her endorsement of this book, Catholic Mom Book Club host Allison Gingras notes, Colleen astutely observes that a Catholic parent’s ultimate goal is guiding their children to heaven. These remarkable mothers provide tangible evidence that this noble aspiration is indeed attainable. Their stories inspire hope, demonstrating that through God’s grace, ordinary individuals can raise children of extraordinary virtue.

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