About Celeste

Celeste is a blogger for the National Catholic Register and a columnist for her diocesan newspaper, the A.D. Times. Her column, “The Catholic Storyteller,” took First Place in the 2021 Catholic Press Awards. Celeste has been a regular contributor to Catholic publications for twenty-five years. Her articles, reviews, and interviews have appeared in Faith & Family magazine, Catholic Digest, and Today’s Catholic Teacher. Celeste is also an accomplished Toastmaster who overcame a crippling fear of public speaking to win more than two dozen awards at the local, division, and district levels of Toastmasters speech competition.

A board game aficionado, Celeste will take on all comers in Scrabble, but is a surefire loser at games of strategy. She enjoys watching tamer anime shows, particularly “Vinland Saga” and “Dr. Stone.”