The Feminine Genius is Not Just Barefoot and Pregnant
“I could never stay home barefoot and pregnant with kids all day,” my twenty-four-year-old law student self thought. “I’d be so bored; I’d go crazy!
“I could never stay home barefoot and pregnant with kids all day,” my twenty-four-year-old law student self thought. “I’d be so bored; I’d go crazy!
There’s someone out there you want to see safely home in the Catholic Church, right? Someone you know would be the next St. Augustine, if
You’re on vacation, zip open your suitcase and slap your forehead when you realize that you forgot to pack your sunhat, flip-flops, band-aids, and lipstick
Did you hear the true story of the Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors? Fr. Hubert Schiffer, SJ and at least four other Jesuits were living in
I’m not one of those twelve million readers who bought the book Heaven is For Real and torpedoed it to the New York Times\’ Bestseller
I tolerate a lot of parental bragging. I think its great when children know they’ve made their parents proud. I’m happy for my friends and
You’ve seen pictures of the Immaculate Heart of Mary beside the Sacred Heart of Jesus in many Catholic homes. In our home, the “alliance of
It’s really too bad that while the legal profession mandates continuing education for its members to maintain their licenses, the Catholic Church won’t revoke a
Never in my worst nightmares did I ever think I’d one day be lying on an operating table, voluntarily submitting my body and my baby
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Not all spiritual learning happens in schools, and in fact, the greatest of the saints didn’t amass their holiness from a scholarly institution. When it
From where I sit, the online bickering between opinionated Catholics looks like a juicy scene straight out of divorce court. Care to see the eye
A politician once asked me flat out for bribery money when I clerked for a law firm in the Philippines. I played dumb, quit my
I first met Pope John Paul II as “Mr. Seymour.” My cousins and I were playing a game of “funeral,” and trailing a tricycle with
My husband and I are as opposite as coffee and cream. He grew up as up as West Coast of the West could be, with
In this world where science and reason reign as twin demi-gods, there is curiously a sizeable portion of intelligent Catholics being lured into the new
Hell froze over when I chopped off my hair for the official mom’s haircut. (My husband’s smile froze, too.) Then pigs started flying when I
Most people born in a land flowing with milk and honey (like my husband and children) rarely understand how people struggle to survive in another
What has me scratching my head like a dandruff shampoo commercial is the popularity of organic foods to maintain healthy, digestive systems inconsistently co-existing with
“What’s it really like to practice law?” I once asked a close family friend, a female corporate lawyer, before I filed my law school application.