The struggle with my calling from God and my own will came to a head in recent weeks. I've found myself increasingly more ill from chronic bile reflux disease, which is causing me very painful gastritis and esophagitis. Over the course of the last few months, what previously would be an occasional painful flare up, …
Catholic Exchange: Women Deserve Better Than the False Promises of Contraceptive Culture
One of the Great Injustices Against Women One day history will show that one of the great injustices against women in our time is birth control. There are a plethora of reasons why this is the case. But there is another dimension that is often overlooked. Birth control has led to a woefully inadequate focus …
Radio Interview on Praying for Priests
Here is a link to a radio interview I had with a priest in the Cincinnati area about my recent blog post on responding to the clergy sex abuse scandals spiritually through prayer and sacrifice. I already know our priests deal with a lot, but this interview was the most honest discussion I've had with …
There Must Be a Spiritual Response to the Clergy Sex Abuse Scandals
Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Wiki Commons People frequently ask me about my thoughts on the clergy sex abuse scandals and the priesthood. When the news first broke in 2018, I spent a lot of time horrified and angry. I've studied enough Church history to know this is not something new and members of the priesthood …
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The Spiritual Life: Are We All In?
Are we all in? This is the question that is posed to us repeatedly in the spiritual life whether we are consciously aware of it or not. Do we truly mean to be disciples of Jesus Christ? Do we really want to be saints? On one level we answer this question with a yes, but …
Why I Deleted My Social Media Accounts
My husband and I made the decision to leave social media. I went through and deleted all of my social media accounts, except for Instagram. I don't post anything to it anymore. I only use it to pray the Rosary with a friend of mine who is leading virtual prayer. The decision has been a …
Meditations for the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary for Priests
Bartolome Esteban Murillo, The Crucifixion, ca 1675 I've gone back and forth on this, but in an effort to encourage people to pray for priests, I wanted to share some meditations that I wrote to go with the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary. I wrote them for a holy hour for priests we had at …
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9/11, the Cross, and Redemptive Suffering
People would sometimes ask me, and I would sometimes ask myself, if all of the suffering and darkness I endured after my 9/11 relief work was worth it. Like so many who lived through that day and the following weeks, I spent about three years in the abyss of PTSD. I do believe that I …
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Donations—A Thank You
I wanted to say thank you for the donations I’ve received so far through the blog. I never thought about adding a donation option until a reader expressly asked me to. I did pray for God to help me find a way to be able to provide books and resources for priests and seminarians that …
Crisis Magazine: A Woman’s Case Against Women-Priests
**This piece was not intended to be a systematic argument against women's ordination. I would have done that as a theologian and in line with Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition. This piece was meant to be a call to my sisters in Christ to abandon the radical feminism that pits us against our spiritual fathers …
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Swimming the Depths 