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March 2021

March 10, 2021

Four Takeaways from Oprah’s Interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex

People are inclined to defend institutions rather than persons, especially when the institution is long-lived,...

December 2020

December 26, 2020

We Watch ‘The Snowman’, Christmas 2020

We watched The Snowman again this Christmas, but without my brother and sister being here,...

September 2020

September 27, 2020

Theological Foundations, and the Importance of Tradition

Tradition, then, in the broadest sense, is the language in which a community recognizes itself...

August 2020

August 08, 2020

Toxic Masculinity: What It Is, and What It isn’t

What we are objecting to is not men. We are objecting to immorality. And for...

February 2020

February 16, 2020

The Flawed Nuptial Imagery in Querida Amazonia – What Can Women Do?

Basically, you're wedded to a groom who is not actually Jesus, but a Jesus-impersonator. He’s...

November 2019

November 24, 2019

Which Families Matter? Rethinking the Idea of “Parental Rights”

For Christians, especially, who invented the term “family values”: if we genuinely believe in protecting...

August 2019

August 18, 2019

My Response to the Men Who Think It’s a Sin For Women To Work Outside the Home

So here's what I have to say, ultimately, to the Twitter trad-bros who are trying...

November 2018

November 16, 2018

“Traditional Catholicism” and Fetishization of Women

They are not presented as subjects, as women with interiority and a story. They are...

September 2018

September 08, 2018

Abuse and Alienation: In The Church, Away From Yourself

In brief, when your church is the center of your community’s social life—whether in a...

July 2018

July 28, 2018

I Spent NFP Awareness Week In Conversation With Questioners

In an intellectual arena where Catholic speakers and writers feel comfortable openly mocking the church’s...

July 17, 2018

In Our Outrage Over Trump and Putin, Don’t Forget Immigrant Families

Let’s not forget that the reason we decided to resist Trump in the first place...

July 12, 2018

The Pro-Life Movement Has Lost

This is why the movement has lost: it no longer has a moral platform to...

June 2018

June 24, 2018

Whatever Happened to Parental Rights? Alfie Evans and Immigrant Children

For those who find it a challenge to see "us" in "them," I would suggest...

May 2018

May 08, 2018

If Alfie Evans Had Been An American Baby

44 million Americans are uninsured right now. My children and I are among these. Being...

April 2018

April 20, 2018

The Toxic Spirituality of Fetishizing Suffering

The failure to understand the nature of suffering means that one fails in spiritual discernment...

April 13, 2018

NFP and the Cookie-Cutter Woman

It’s only in the area of sexuality – this private, intimate, vulnerable region – that...

December 2017

December 20, 2017

God in the Grotesque: a Nativity Scene

here was God, Creator of the Universe, playing with a kraken like a puppy

October 2017

October 11, 2017

On NFP: Conversations that Need to Happen

"I did it, you can too," is never a viable response to someone who is...

July 2017

July 21, 2017

Women’s Literature: The Stories That Are Not Told

The radical idea that women are people too still hasn’t entirely caught on.

June 2017

June 01, 2017

With the Paris Accord, Listen to our Popes – Not Trump

Why can we not see how our sinfulness mars the very soil on which we...

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Pro-Life Sexual Ethics Without Punishment or Shame

Bottom line: there is no excuse for Christians to fail to be merciful toward sexual...

May 15, 2017

the cultural ambiguity in our honoring of mothers

What is amiss is that we are not honoring women in their many, varied capabilities...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

Women As “Gatekeepers of Morality”: A Recipe for Abuse

Why is it always the women who are expected to reform the men?

April 10, 2017

Jesus was not an alpha

unless you want to define and redefine and twist the concept until it has no...

April 05, 2017

my family did the benedict option before it was cool – and here’s why it doesn’t work

And there’s something touchingly tragic about it: because on a fundamental level, one can see...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

on the mike pence dining option, and why feminists are expressing criticism

In the flurry of debate arising about Mike Pence's rules for association with women other...

March 14, 2017

about those “other” NFP families

Part of the problem is that unless you have a child every two years or...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

genetic testing and hereditary disease: some gifts we can not control

But when I think about hereditary disease, and those who have not been as lucky...

February 10, 2017

ten things we feminists wish you knew about us

First of all: there are many feminisms. What you learn about what feminist, or one...

December 2016

December 01, 2016

I’m glad pope francis hasn’t responded to the cardinals

Marriage, sexuality, family life, and child-raising are all complex matters because of the unique irrepeatable...