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Franciscan U. Steubenville Conference: Identity, Man, and Woman →

November 14, 2024
Tags: gender, gender ideology, identity, Catholic Church, theology

Podcast: It's a [Fallen] Man's World, The Dunce's Corner →

April 01, 2023
Tags: feminism, feminine genius, motherhood, maternity, pro-life feminism, universities

Webinar: Feminism Against Progress →

April 01, 2023
Tags: Mary Harrington, reactionary feminism, feminism, sexuality, sexual ethics, sexual revolution, the Pill, identity

Podcast: Women Aren't Fallen Males →

March 07, 2023

A podcast based on my article for Church Life Journal, “Why Does Higher Ed Throw Women Under the Bus?”

Tags: feminism, pro-life movement, pro-life feminism, abortion, artificial reproductive technology, universities, higher ed, sexual ethics, sexual revolution

A Post-Roe Future: The Culture of Life →

February 11, 2023

A panel at Notre Dame in January 2023. I speak beginning at minute 19:15.

Tags: abortion, pro-life movement, Dobbs, culture of life, feminism, pro-life feminism, contraception, universities, Margaret Sanger, artificial reproductive technology

Disordered Desire and Concupiscence

January 12, 2023

The panel I participated in on the Pontifical Academy for Life's ill-considered book is available on YouTube. My paper, "Disordered Desire and Contraception," begins at 1:41:18. From December 2022.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhlwKWZhWY4&list=PLWwG8qPyXx7fbPjF30fJ0AiCb0W8I5do6&index=4 Tags: contraception, birth control, desire, concupiscence, theology, theology of the body, Catholic Church, Pontifical Academy for Life

Podcast: Gender, Bodies, and the Space of Responsiveness →

February 16, 2022

A conversation with Leonard DeLorenzo from the McGrath Institute at Notre Dame and the Church Life Today podcast.

Podcast: Fluidity and Gender Theory →

February 16, 2022

An interview with Gaudium et Spes 22’s Larry Chapp, with Rodney Howshare.

Podcast: Freedom, Sexuality, and Happiness →

September 03, 2021

The USCCB First Freedom Podcast

Tags: religious freedom, sexual ethics, sexuality, theology of the body, happiness

Podcast: Person and Identity

July 01, 2021

I spoke about my articles “What is a Human?” and “The Body as Totem in the Asexual Revolution” (you can find them under the Writing tab).

For the video, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ci76LNNNbs and scroll to the second hour.

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Tags: Person, podcast, identity, theology of the body, body, theology, gender, transgenderism

How Fluid Are We? Gender, the Body, and Us →

April 21, 2021

We are told that our gender is fluid. How true is this? What is the reality and purpose of our bodies? Is there any truth to "fluidity"? What does any of this have to do with God? I present a theology of the gendered body and discuss the truth and the limits of the idea of "fluidity."

Tags: gender, gender ideology, transgenderism, fluidity, theology of the body, theology, Catholic Church

Lenten Reflection

March 29, 2021

For the Monday of Holy Week, given for St. John’s Seminary, Boston.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YmT8csE72g Tags: Lent, Memento Mori, St. Joseph, Lenten reflection

The Sexed Body: Why?

March 09, 2021

A Theology and Culture lecture for St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry

Theology and Culture is a monthly event series hosted by St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry. These events are presentations and conversations surr...

Tags: theology of the body, body, gender, gender ideology, transgenderism, sexual ethics

Podcast: Eugenics and Contraception

February 11, 2021

A podcast with Catholic Answers Live on Jan. 22, 2021, on contraception, eugenics, and population control.

Source: https://www.catholic.com/audio/cal/eugenics-and-contraception Tags: eugenics, contraception, birth control, Catholicism, Catholic Church, population control, disability rights, Margaret Sanger

Podcast: Theology of the Body and Gender

February 11, 2021

A January 2021 podcast with The Catholic Conversation’s Steve and Becky Greene about gender ideology.

Source: https://soundcloud.com/phoenixdiocese/1-23-21-dr-angela-franks?in=phoenixdiocese/sets/the-catholic-conversation Tags: gender, gender ideology, transgenderism, theology of the body, body, diocese of phoenix

Podcast: Hans Urs von Balthasar's A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen, part 2

February 11, 2021

The second part of a podcast series on the reissue by Ignatius Press of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen, from August 2020. With Kris McGregor of Discerning Hearts and the podcast series “Balthasar: Beauty, Truth, Goodness.”

Source: https://youtu.be/cjfkuAAZFC4 Tags: Hans Urs von Balthasar, Catholicism, Catholic Church, modernity, theology

Podcast: Hans Urs von Balthasar's A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen, part 1

February 11, 2021

The first of two podcasts on the reissue by Ignatius Press of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen, with Kris McGregor of Discerning Hearts. In the podcast series called “Balthasar: Beauty, Truth, Goodness,” from August 2020.

Source: https://youtu.be/muK-fW_w8vw Tags: Hans Urs von Balthasar, form, Catholicism, Catholic Church, new evangelization

Podcast: Contraception and Catholicism →

December 16, 2019

I talk on Catholic Answers Live about Church teaching on contraception, from November 2019.

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Tags: contraception, birth control, Catholic Church, Catholicism, theology, theology of the body, eugenics, Margaret Sanger

Podcast: Abortion, Eugenics, Racism, and the War Against Female Fertility →

April 03, 2019

With John Stonestreet and BreakPoint

Tags: eugenics, birth control, Margaret Sanger, feminism, abortion, contraception

"False Feminism" by Katherine Kersten

March 23, 2019
"False Feminism" by Katherine Kersten

After all, theologian Angela Franks asks, if an act has no content, how do you know if you want it? “Without a sense of a true good in relationships,” she says, “we don’t know to what we should consent. We are left with an arbitrary act of the will.”

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Source: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/02/false-feminism Tags: #MeToo, consent, sexual ethics, sexual revolution, feminism
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Books & Articles

Featured
Nov 14, 2016
Contraception and Catholicism
Nov 14, 2016
Nov 14, 2016
Nov 14, 2016
Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy
Nov 14, 2016
Nov 14, 2016
Nov 12, 2016
Women, Sex, and the Church
Nov 12, 2016
Nov 12, 2016