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Roundtable: Modern Heresies About Women →

June 18, 2025

A speakers’ roundtable at the True Genius conference sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.

Tags: feminism, feminine genius, women, heresy, sexuality, sexual revolution, contraception, Trad wives, transgenderism

Roundtable: Catholicism and Feminism →

June 18, 2025

A roundtable of speakers at the True Genius conference sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.

Tags: feminism, feminine genius, Catholic theology, Catholic history, Catholicism, women

Lecture: The Church's Vision for Women →

June 18, 2025

I was honored to present a keynote at the True Genius conference sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.

Tags: feminine genius, feminism, pro-life feminism, Catholic Church, women, Catholic theology, Catholic history, Catholicism, theology, John Paul II

Webinar: Feminism Against Progress, II

June 18, 2025

A second webinar I was honored to do, jumping off from Mary Harrington’s Feminism Against Progress.

Tags: feminism, Catholic theology, sexuality, sexual revolution, sexual ethics

Theology of the Body 101 →

June 18, 2025

A talk I presented in California, sponsored by Catholic Answers.

Tags: theology of the body, theology, Catholic theology, John Paul II, sexuality, sexual ethics

Podcast: "Sex Positivity" →

June 18, 2025

With Catholic Answers Focus!

Tags: sexuality, sexual ethics, sexual revolution, sex positivity, Catholicism, Catholic theology

Rev. Charles Van Euw Lecture: Body and Identity: How Did We Get Here? →

June 18, 2025

I was honored to deliver the annual Van Euw Lecture on my upcoming book, Body and Identity.

Tags: identity, John Locke, body, theology, theology of the body, history

Podcast: A Catholic Response to the Postmodern Crisis of identity →

June 18, 2025

On the Catholic Theology Show with Michael Dauphinais!

Tags: identity, post-modernism, postmodernism, Catholic, Catholicism, Cathol

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
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I write both academic and popular works. You can scroll down for selected books and articles, or go to the "Writing" page.

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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