I’ve had a limited exposure to the Edith Stein Project at Notre Dame but all I’ve read about this student initiative is inspiring and hopeful. Mirror of Justice is posting information about their very recent conference which included luminaries in the field of authentic femininity. Those of us who couldn’t be there can at least […]

So many of us can relate directly to this vignette painted by a young mother of three:Today, I went to the thrift store with my three little ones in tow. I was wearing the baby and the two and four year olds were riding in the cart while I tried to browse a couple things. […]

Vultis Christi has lovely meditations and notes focusing our attention in the right place during this penitential season:Lent is supposed to be unsettling. Lent is supposed to disrupt our routines. Lent is about entering into another rhythm of life, a rhythm different from the one by which we ordinarily organize our lives. The unwillingness to […]

Auntie Joanna is probably younger than I am, but I’ll go along with her appellation. She had these kind words to say:A GOOD READI am very much enjoying Genevieve Kineke’s The Authentic Catholic Woman (Servant books, just published). It is a realistic, well-informed and thoughtful book which looks at modern life and the modern Church […]

How kind of this lovely mother in South Carolina to say such nice things about the book here. In particular, and she notes:As a homeschooling mother, I was especially interested in the chapter on the Church as Teacher. Just as the Church provides her children with various sacramentals and other tangible symbols — holy water, […]

Unlike the Valentine gift offered in NYC (condoms to help promote lust), Benedict offered his Wednesday audience on the gift that women have given to the Church over the centuries.Vatican City, Feb 14, 2007 / 11:13 am (CNA).- The role of women in the history of the Church was the theme chosen by Benedict XVI […]

I just found out that an interview I had with Renee LaReau has been posted online here. It revolved around the question, did I consider myself a feminist? You’ll find some other recognisable names therein, and I think she did a nice job. I’ll be on The Catholic Channel, Sirius 159 next Wednesday (5:20pm) to […]

Despite the loyal opposition’s sincere doubts about Catholics’ ability to discuss the subject rationally, we’ve been invited to discuss the theology of the body vs. feminism on Dan’s blog. I do hope I can think up arguments for our side despite my having been sidelined as domestic drone for the last twenty-something years. Anyone’s welcome […]

What’s up with this element of Fashion Week? Is this serious? Who is the target? It can’t be non-Muslims because we’re not wearing ski masks — even glittery ones. It can’t be for Muslims, because it seems to have a little artistic highlighting around the breasts that make the whole thing a Madonna-like joke. We […]

Struggling to live after being nearly exterminated, Rwanda has learned that its friends offer the same kind of assistance as its enemies, insisting that fewer Rwandans are better than more.Officials who are designing the new population control program said it would include a requirement that everyone who visits a hospital or health center for any […]

Parsing all the angles of the HPV vaccine is difficult, and yet succumbing to its mandated use by a government agency masks the deeper problem which leaves children prone to the harms of promiscuity. Fran Eaton has done the heavy lifting and gives air to an excellent dicussion here.What most didn’t understand is that this […]

Henri de Lubac is a critical source for understanding the motherhood of the Church. Consider this nugget from The Splendor of the Church (Ignatius Press, pp. 57-58):There may be something like an infinite variety of harmonics in the sound, but it is always the same new song learned from the same Mother after the new […]

And don’t even bother applying for a position at Harvard without the right chomosomes and lifestyle. They’ve virtually taken the old No Blacks or Jews Need Apply signs and amended them to indicate the myopic need for women, gays and people of colour. Word is out that the new president of the Esteemed Ivy is […]

Welcome to the folks sent over from Pandagon (lately linked in a roundabout but esteemed way to John Edwards). If he shares Kitty’s delusion (in the comments) that magazines like Playboy share a philosophy of complementarity with the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, I hope he’s never entrusted with The Football. The thought that he […]

So much ink and time spilled over the Edwards bloggers. Either you know the background or you don’t. Assuming that you do, I’ll pass along these thoughts which I think make an excellent point, one often made in diverse ways here.Back in the day, women were nothing more than chattle, at best they were temple […]

I think the American Princess sums up the life and death of Anna Nicole Smith quite succinctly:[S]he lived a lonely life and she died a lonely death. Thats terribly sad. No matter how you look at what she’s done, who she was, her whole life was tragic. Her dad left her family when she was […]

Communists hate the family, because it is a unit of organisation based on a hierarchy they cannot penetrate. They also hate Christianity for the same reason: God the Father doesn’t mesh well with the dictatorship of the proletariat. So when a Christian won’t bend to the Will of the State, what better way to attack […]

Benedict offered these beautiful words that we should take to heart:VATICAN CITY, FEB 7, 2007 (VIS) - Benedict XVI’s catechesis during this morning’s general audience was dedicated to the Roman couple Priscilla and Aquila, who collaborated with St. Paul in Corinth. Having been expelled from Rome by the emperor Claudius following disturbances involving followers of […]

Some people approach elections as a foray into gender-based paybacks:“I am one of the millions of women who have waited all their lives to see the first woman sworn in as president of the United States — and now we have our best opportunity to see that dream fulfilled,” wrote Ellen Malcolm, the founder of […]

Jordan offered its first honour killing of the year late in January — despite legal efforts to crack down on the perpetrators.A Jordanian man fatally shot his 17-year-old daughter whom he suspected of having sex despite a medical exam that proved her chastity, an official said Thursday. The man surrendered to police hours after the […]

… who scandalise the little ones. Enormous porn ring busted out of Austria. Very disturbing, with over two thousand voyeurs implicated. And in Africa, children at the heart of suffering:The sad-eyed father sat with his wife in the shade of a mango tree in northern Uganda and prayed for his nine children. Each had been […]

Literally. Juliet Peck lost two husbands to violence, each being journalists in difficult assignments, and each leaving her with a small child in a foreign place. Her first was killed in Afghanistan, and then she remarried.On being assigned to Moscow, Rory and Juliet Peck continued reporting, and she was with her husband when he was […]

John Mallon brings the CEDAW treaty to our attention (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women), because the United States has been under constant pressure to ratify it. Ratification would not help women, in fact it undermines family life and only pushes greater access to abortion and contraception — even in […]

Let’s see: We cannot blame it on societal guilt. We cannot blame it on misunderstandings. We cannot blame it on kids not knowing how to do it creatively. We cannot blame it on ignorance. It seems to be an unvarnished fact: sex is harmful to kids. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenagers often suffer emotional […]

I’d be one of the first to warn about the duplicity of the same-sex attraction crowd in their push for marriage. Despite the crocodile tears about benefits and public professions of fidelity, they do not pursue marriage with a desire to settle into Ozzie and Harriet lives, but in order to transform society — to […]

Last night at a singles ministry meeting at my church, a friend asked me about my visit last week to Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She and another friend were wondering about whether or not that seminary supports the Bible’s definition of pastors–or whether the women students there were being trained as pastors. I realized that […]

Last summer, the pastors at my church began to teach through 1 Corinthians. It’s taken many months, but we’ve now arrived at the seventh chapter, which addresses singleness. Two weeks ago, Jeff Purswell, who serves Sovereign Grace Ministries as the dean of our Pastors College, opened his sermon by poking fun at the ominous disclaimers […]

Alex and Brett Harris of The Rebelution gave women an unusual, but helpful, Valentine’s Day gift in The Modesty Survey. I was traveling when everyone else in cyberspace found out about this, but with spring soon upon us, it’s not too late to revisit the subject. For this project, Alex and Brett hosted an […]

The travels continue! I’m headed today to Raleigh for a speaking engagement at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. I have the pleasure of speaking to the women’s ministry class there–and they may even sneak me into a systematic theology lecture this afternoon. Can’t wait to attend my first seminary class! In the meantime, Crosswalk.com is carrying an […]

We returned from Aguascalientes, Mexico, last week but the days have been too full since then to stop and note the grace of God we saw there in the newest Sovereign Grace Ministries church. Elias Reyes is the senior pastor. He was trained in the Sovereign Grace Ministries Pastors College in Juarez, Mexico, and […]