Essay
Our Lady and the Snow
My husband hates the snow. In it he just sees bitter cold and heaps of work to shovel up. While I have sympathy for his disdain of winter, my own experience has given me a […]
Articles by Carrie Gress, Ph.D.
The Fashion of Abortion
Planned Parenthood President and CEO Cecile Richards, testifying before the House Oversight Committee this week, finally admitted that not one of organization’s some 700 clinics is outfitted with a mammogram machine. This means, hopefully, the […]
General
Francis and Evangelizing with Questions
This past week Pope Francis took the East Coast by storm. Our smug American cities turned them into pop-up World Youth Days, at least is spirit and numbers. Like Pope John Paul II’s first papal […]
General
There is Nothing to See Here. Please Disperse.*
Planned Parenthood has just launched a targeted media campaign against four Republican Senators up for reelection in 2016 who voted to defunding the embattled organization. The ads, which cost six figures, leave those of us […]
General
What Do Ricki Lake, Georgetown University and The Pill Have in Common?
Although the pill has been considered good medicine for over fifty years, scientific researchers are meeting for an upcoming conference to discuss their work showing the manifold hazards of oral contraceptives. The event, “Contraceptive Conundrum: […]
General
The Little Sisters of the Poor v. The Big Sisters of the Rich
It isn’t every week that clear bookends of the culture war are so manifestly on display. Earlier this week the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled that the Little Sister’s of the Poor […]
Interview
What’s the Best Way to Love Those with Same-Sex Attraction?
While most people are familiar with Janet E. Smith because of her work to clarify the Church’s teaching on contraception, she has recently expanded her focus to include those with same-sex attraction and those who […]
Essay
Six Ways the Catholic Church Is Like an Italian Mamma
The face of the Catholic Church is often a masculine one, whether it be the pope, bishops, or local priests, and in recent decades this has been viewed by many as a bad thing. The […]
General
Screwtape and the Marketing of Suicidism
Recently, in Rome, the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy hosted the tenth annual weeklong course on exorcisms for 170 clergy, religious and laity, including doctors and psychologists. The program organizer, Fr. Pedro Barrajon, told Thomas […]
General
Feminist “Logic”: Misogyny’s Ironic Ally
A “deformed male”—that was Aristotle’s definition of women nearly 2400 years ago. For centuries, women have tried to conquer the misconception that they were mis-conceived, as Aristotle described it, and to prove they are as […]