Christian Womanhood

Once Upon a Time, in America

04/10/2021 at 6:07 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Anthony Esolen, Crisis, April 10, 2021 Pictures come to mind when I think of the Lonely Revolution – that deterioration of the principles governing sexual behavior in the ruins of the Christian West. One is of my father and my mother, before they were married, and of my father’s... read more

The Vow of Unknowing

12/24/2020 at 4:42 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Rob Marco, 1P5, December 18, 2020 In 1968, a Stanford biologist named Paul Ehrlich wrote a best-seller entitled, “The Population Bomb.” The premise: We have surpassed the ability of the earth to sustain life on Earth with our current rate of population growth. Ehrlich predicted that by... read more

The Indisputably Best Way to Raise a Saint

08/13/2020 at 5:56 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Dan Millette, OnePeterFive, August 13, 2020 What occasionally keeps me up at night, besides the yappy dog a few houses over, is wondering how to raise my children to become saints. There are so many questions my wife and I ponder. How do we get our children to a reverent Mass? Will... read more

Why Young Christians Get “Weird”

05/23/2020 at 2:52 PM By Kevin Edward White
By John Horvat II, The Catholic Thing, My23, 2020 Many liberal writers have trouble explaining the attraction that young people have for religion, especially in its more traditional forms. This attraction is not supposed to exist. It short circuits the logic of their preferred narratives. Young... read more

Domesticity Is Not Slavery

05/21/2020 at 3:16 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Jane Clark Scharl, Crisis, May 21, 2020 The New York Times recently ran a piece titled “Women’s Unpaid Labor is Worth $10,900,000,000,000.” It was exactly as cynical and one-sided as one might expect. Though the piece masqueraded as a simple survey of women’s often-unseen... read more

The ERA Died Decades Ago (So Why Are the Losers Still Fighting?)

02/20/2020 at 3:54 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
The ERA Died Decades Ago (So Why Are the Losers Still Fighting?) COMMENTARY: For nearly 50 years, the Equal Rights Amendment has been scrutinized and firmly rejected for one simple reason: It’s not about equal rights for women — and pretending otherwise will never make it so. By Sue... read more

Disappointment, outrage over papal document on the Amazon

02/15/2020 at 4:21 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Heidi Schlumpf, National Catholic Reporter, February 12, 2020 Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on the Amazon disappointed those hoping for an opening of clerical roles to married men and women, with many noting that the pope failed to extend his prophetic voice about environmental... read more

Francis declines to answer Amazon synod’s requests for married priests, women ministers

02/12/2020 at 10:16 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Joshua J. McElwee, National Catholic Reporter, February 12, 2020 VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has not granted a request from the Catholic bishops of the Amazon to allow for the priestly ordination of married men in their territories in order to address a severe lack of ministers across the... read more

The troubling terminations you’ve never heard of

01/10/2020 at 6:36 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Not all abortions end an unwanted pregnancy, and that makes a difference to the women By Paul Sullins | Jan 10 2020 | Does the termination of an unwanted pregnancy harm women’s mental health? No more than giving birth in such circumstances, according to mainstream social scientists and... read more
A Sister of Life at opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life.

The new Sisterhood: traditional orders are booming

01/09/2020 at 9:56 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Joanna Bogle, Catholic Herald, December 29, 2019 The blue-and-white clad Sisters of the Community of Our Lady of Walsingham have recently acquired a new novitiate, a converted barn in Dereham, Norfolk, on a large stretch of land with another barn which they are turning into extra rooms for... read more