Anna Mitchell is the news director and anchor for the “Son Rise Morning Show” on the EWTN Global Catholic Radio Network. As a reporter, she has covered the controversial commencement at Notre Dame that honored President Barack Obama, the 2010 Pallium Mass in Rome and the first-ever National Theology of the Body Congress. She is a contributor to the “Today’s Catholics – Young Adults” section for the Integrated Catholic Life.
Anna’s favorite hobby is collecting old books to add to her bookshelves in her trendy downtown apartment in Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated from Ohio University in 2006 with degrees in Journalism and History. She loves reading, writing, playing guitar, and watching Reds baseball, Ohio State football and Project Runway. Anna is learning Italian so she can live in Rome someday, and is also very active in the St. Gertrude 20s Group in Cincinnati.
As a young news reporter for a Catholic network, I have three perspectives on the midterm election, and I intend to share all of them: first my thoughts as a Catholic, then as a reporter, then as a young person. For a Catholic, the midterm election this year seems pretty encouraging. There were many pro-life [...]
I think it might be the result of being friends with five current and former chastity educators, but I have found myself noticing more and more the negative influences our culture has put on our perception of love. Case in point: Recently I was on a tour with a few friends and about 50 [...]
I recently decided, more or less on a whim, to be a Sunday school teacher at my parish. I saw an e-mail asking for new instructors, so I called and volunteered. I’ve also recently decided to help out more with junior high ministry at the parish that sponsors my young adult group. These commitments may [...]
I only remember going to Confession once during my four years in college. Confession was a sacrament that I just didn’t think about much (we’ll get into that at a later date), but it became a last resort at this certain moment during my senior year. I hadn’t even done anything particularly terrible: I was [...]
One of the more poignant moments so far in my young adult life came one night while reading the Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. At the time I had been out of college for more than six months without much hope of landing a job. I was terribly discouraged for much of that period, but [...]
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St. Benedict for Beginners – The Third Step to Humility
This is the ninth in a series on St. Benedict for Beginners. – The Editors The Third Step to Humility ‘The third step of humility is that for the love of God a man should be obedient to his superior in all things.’ Obedience? What a sign of scandal in an individualistic age! The whole [...]
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