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February 2018

February 10, 2018

In Defending Life, Draw the Circle Wide

A true ethic of life means drawing the circle of "what lives are owed protection"...

February 07, 2018

How Safe Can Our Art Be?

There's sacrifice demanded by art, but this doesn't mean you sacrifice the lives of others...

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 20, 2017

When Priests Display Misogyny, They Subvert the Persona Christi

The real heart of the problem with this anti-woman approach is not just tacky style,...

April 2017

April 24, 2017

When Christian Women Tell You What We Hear

"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" is taken as an...

April 19, 2017

who’s listening when we talk about abortion?

You see what the woman is running towards. You don’t see what she’s running from.

April 10, 2017

Jesus was not an alpha

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

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 27, 2017

female beauty, religion, and fetishism

Female beauty is seen as some kind of proof of divine goodness, as a symbol...

March 08, 2017

things not to say, if you actually respect women

If you're passing around memes mocking contemporary feminists, you are the type who would have...

March 03, 2017

the defense of the unborn, and the demands of justice

If you wake up one day with a violinist attached to you it is unjust,...

February 2017

February 21, 2017

how should a christian respond to milo?

Our image of the loser guy in his mom's basement drooling over porn and proliferating...

January 2017

January 10, 2017

who’s waging war on men, again? the anti-feminist caricature of men

Add a shot of internalized misogyny, and we have a woman who is more disgusted...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

misogyny and modesty porn

A group calling itself "Traditional Roman Catholic" recently posted, on Facebook, a picture of an...

November 07, 2016

fr. pavone, being prolife is not about performance art

No, in this case, these images serve to harm the other victims in the picture:...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

looks like we need a little refresher course on consent

But do women deserve to be forcibly groped because they read a book about sexual...

September 2016

September 21, 2016

mothering and identity politics: maybe it’s not about what I like

The point of being a mother is not my own identity; it's the well-being of...

September 05, 2016

There Is No Such Thing As a Self-Made Man: What We Owe the Worker

The value of work ends up being separated from the value of the person, and...

August 2016

August 21, 2016

catholic and feminist: identity, action, and faith

Looking anew at Mary and other female saints – looking anew at the women of...

August 12, 2016

the “ugly feminist” and the christian ethos

Women who do not conform to societal standards for prettiness or femininity are reviled by...

August 10, 2016

sex robots, inequality, and consequentialism

the products are clearly marketed on the basis of existing sexist stereotypes and predicated on...

August 03, 2016

I wrote a piece about baby-hating, and this is what I learned

If one can not reject hatred of persons, if one can not embrace a willingness...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

natural fertility management: one feminist perspective

I have been accused of using contraception by those who think that NFP is acceptable...

July 21, 2016

ostentatious baby-hating is no better than racism

Babies might not be to your taste, but this is a case in which your...

July 01, 2016

war, abortion, and liberty: reconsidering our obsession with independence (and firing up the grill)

One of my favorite passages in The Lord of the Rings is when Aragorn asks...

May 2016

May 16, 2016

jesus loves your fat: why fat-shaming is not christian

Jesus loves us, fat and all. Self-loathing and all.

May 02, 2016

modesty, it turns out, is a thing – but not the thing they said it was

We often hear sermons or admonitions against scanty dress in women, but rarely do we...

April 2016

April 09, 2016

How Feminism Strengthened My Christianity

I dared to think, and to see Mary as a woman who thought, who contemplated,...

April 03, 2016

custody of the eyes, and the danger of nihilistic despair

Training in sexual responsibility should not draw lines around most of humanity and signal with...