A monastic vocation

A monastic vocation

In the summer of 2021, the contemplative Dominican nuns of the Monastery of Our Lady of Grace in North Guilford, Connecticut will have a new member. Gretchen Erlichman, a PhD candidate and teaching fellow at Catholic University, explains her vocation here: I...
Retrograde law in Egypt

Retrograde law in Egypt

No matter what apologists for Islam tell you, women are not considered equal to men specifically because of the example and words of its founder. An Egyptian woman is a legally incapacitated person who has no right to travel outside the country or manage her own...
The Myriad Harms of Surrogacy

The Myriad Harms of Surrogacy

Beyond the moral problems related to the conception of surrogate children (usually several forms of technical interference are needed), and the subsequent evils of “fetal reductions” (meaning the abortion of multiple [“surplus”] little ones who...
Archives

Archives

Years of older blog posts (on myriad topics of interest to women of faith) can be found here. A separate blog on Islam (specifically as it relates to women) can be found here. Years of audio from a television/radio show can be found here. My articles at Catholic...
War of a Another Kind

War of a Another Kind

Despite the existential body blows thrown at the family in recent decades, there is a template that might help to push back against the present confusion. In Biology 101, we learned that at the center of every plant or animal cell is a nucleus, whose key function is...