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Religion Journalist

When Heidi Schlumpf studied journalism at the University of Notre Dame two decades ago, she had no idea she would end up writing about the religion–or that she would primarily write about it online. Today Schlumpf is a prominent Catholic journalist whose work appears regularly in the National Catholic Reporter, U.S. Catholic and a number of other publications. Her claim to fame, such that it is, is that she was once investigated by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for an article she wrote about women who felt called to the priesthood.

SpiritualKnitter

Heidi Schlumpf has been blogging about her creative pursuits since 2007.

Adoptive Mom

Heidi and her husband, Edmund, are the parents of two adopted children. Those children–a son adopted from Vietnam and a daughter from China–were the subject of Schlumpf’s first book, While We Wait: Spiritual and Practical Advice for Those Trying to Adopt (ACTA, 2009).

More cotton knitting

I don’t know what came over me: Right around the same time I was working on the bath mitt teacher gifts, I cast on for Absorba, the Great BathMat, from Mason-Dixon Knitting. Maybe it’s summer that makes me want to knit with cotton. Or maybe it was the cleaning I’ve been doing in my craft [...]

by Heidi Schlumpf on June 30, 2012 in Knitting

Knitted teacher gifts

The good news is that our kids got into the public preschool–not our neighborhood school, but one just one neighborhood over. This means they will both go to a half-day of preschool everyday AT THE SAME TIME. It will really make it easier for both my husband and me to get work done. The bad [...]

by Heidi Schlumpf on June 24, 2012 in Family, Knitting

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