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December 2015

December 14, 2015

Serena Williams Just Took Feminism Back a Generation

Serena Williams, named Sports Illustrated's 2015 "Sportsperson of the Year," dressed for her cover photo...

October 2015

October 25, 2015

Feminism Invades Church and World, and I’m Frustrated

I am confused. Are women so inferior that the "best" woman in the whole world...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

Why Won’t the Catholic Church “Get With the Times” and Ordain Women Priests?

In Des Moines, Iowa, the Catholic Worker House is no longer permitted to hold liturgies...

August 03, 2015

Pro-Life Leader on Trial Today, Accused of Trespassing at Navy Pier During Planned Parenthood Gala

A prominent pro-life leader faces a judge this morning in Cook County Court, in what...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s…. Mifepristone!

On Saturday morning, a coalition of feminist groups from Germany, Russia and Poland will take their...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Seven Women Attempt Ordination–And No, They’re Not Priests

Seven "well prepared" women attempted to be ordained Catholic priests in Morristown, New Jersey, on...

April 24, 2015

Hillary Insists Your Backwards Religious Beliefs Must Be Changed….

"Deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed” for the sake...

March 2015

March 09, 2015

AIN’T I A WOMAN? Sojourner Truth, and the Liberation of America’s Smallest Women

On March 8, 2011, feminists observed the centenary of International Women’s Day—a day when we...

February 2015

February 01, 2015

Bishop David Ricken Criticizes Selection of Gloria Steinem as Catholic College Speaker

Gloria Steinem won't be speaking about abortion when she visits the campus of St. Norbert College this...

January 2015

January 05, 2015

Dear Ms. Walker: You Are Not a Priest

On Saturday, January 3 in Kansas City, Georgia Walker attempted to do what no woman...

September 2014

September 10, 2014

Femen Protesters Acquitted of Charges They Vandalized Notre Dame’s Bell – UPDATED

Today nine activists from the pro-abortion group Femen have been acquitted of charges that they...

August 2014

August 07, 2014

IMAGE AND REALITY: God’s Vision for Womanhood

What makes a woman beautiful? If the magazines in the checkout aisle are to be...

May 2014

May 09, 2014

LCWR Responds After Tense Meeting With CDF’s Cardinal Gerhard Müller

On May 8, the Leadership Council of Women Religious (LCWR) issued a statement on their...

March 2014

March 02, 2014

Cleavage = Control? I Don’t Think So!

There's power in cleavage? That was the claim of a recent Detroit Free Press article...

February 2014

February 07, 2014

Feminist Chutzpah: HuffPo Columnist Scolds Pope Francis For His Catholic Faith

Not content with Pope Francis' washing of women's feet on Holy Thursday or phoning up...

January 2014

January 21, 2014

Two Hymns I Will Not Sing

I love to sing at Mass. Recalling an adage attributed to St. Augustine, I believe...

January 02, 2014

The Naked Woman in Cologne Cathedral and Her American Paparazzi Connection

On Christmas Day, as the 10 a.m. high Mass got underway in Germany’s Cologne Cathedral,...

December 2013

December 29, 2013

“Be Submissive?” Spanish Feminists Must Really Hate Today’s Second Scripture Reading

Get Married and Be Submissive. That’s the advice coming from a best-selling new book by...

July 2013

July 27, 2013

Women’s Group Plans Major Protest at the White House on August 1—And You Can Help

Do you remember when the HHS Mandate first made news across America? Early news reports...

July 02, 2013

HuffPo: Don’t Have Sex With That Man!

Sultry, sweaty summers can be made much nicer when good old-fashioned sex is part of...

June 2013

June 15, 2013

Bare-Breasted Babes Busting Out in the Big Apple

When I was young—very young, like three or four years old—I wondered why men could...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

THE UGLY FACE OF FEMINIST WRATH: Foul-Mouthed, Topless Protesters Drench Archbishop With Water (UPDATED)

Ah, woman. So soft, so demure, so loving, so radiant. The graceful Hollywood beauty Audrey...

February 2013

February 23, 2013

The Poet Named for a Building

Yesterday was the birthday of Edna St. Vincent Millay, American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. ...

January 2013

January 14, 2013

Protesters Strip in St. Peter’s Square; Pope Stays on Target

Four women from the Ukrainian feminist group Femen shed their shirts and bared their breasts...

December 2012

December 30, 2012

In Michigan, Feminists Refuse to Protect Women

Do Michigan’s feminists REALLY care about women? In the ‘70s, when abortion proponents were making...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

STRONG WOMEN TAKE CENTER STAGE THIS WEEK – The Church Oppresses Women? I Don’t Think So!!

You’ve heard the whining: The Catholic Church oppresses women. The complaints likely center on two...

June 2012

June 17, 2012

HOME-STATE SHAME: Michigan Democratic Congresswomen to Perform V-Monologues on Capitol Steps

How low can you go? Last Thursday in my home state of Michigan, Democratic Congresswoman Lisa...

January 2012

January 28, 2012

For Mothers Everywhere: On Scrubbing Toilets and the Challenger Disaster

Twenty-six years ago, on January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds...

July 2011

July 10, 2011

R.I.P. Betty Ford: Champion of [Some] Women's Rights

Former First Lady Betty Ford died this week of natural causes, at the age of...