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Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle is an award-winning and best-selling author and journalist, speaker, pilgrimage host, and the EWTN television host of “Everyday Blessings for Catholic Moms” and “Catholic Mom’s Cafe,” which she created. Donna-Marie was blessed to know Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. and Bl. Mother Teresa. She was invited by the Holy See to participate in an international congress held at the Vatican and is the recipient of apostolic blessings from St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. She received a special blessing from St. John Paul II for her work on Mother Teresa. Donna-Marie is a frequent guest on national Catholic radio and television.

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