Every hair on your head
I never considered myself pretty. While I didn’t think I was particularly ugly, I simply thought I was ordinary, if I thought about it at all. I never was the…
The feminine call to creativity
Within every one of us is an impulse to create — to tiptoe into a dim, dawn-lit kitchen before the children arise to shape, score and bake a loaf of…
What the setting sun has to teach us about God’s love
My love language is skies. This works, I like to quip, when you’re dating the God of the Universe — and Our Lord has never tired of giving me glorious…
Beauty was my light in the darkness
The past several years have not been void of darkness. Pandemics, political turmoil, economic wars, actual wars, isolation, depression — and I think there were murder hornets somewhere in between….
Discovering God’s beauty as a Latina Catholic
There are few movements in today’s mainstream climate that I agree with or like, but one of the current trends I absolutely love is seeing more diversity in the display…
A letter to my younger self: Body image
Can you look into the mirror and tell yourself you are beautiful? Not out of pride or conceit, but because you are rooted in the knowledge that everything God created…
Why Catholics should read great books
In the 1970s, the University of Kansas launched an investigation on their recently developed Integrated Humanities Program. The administration at the secular university had concerns that the three Catholic professors…
An unlikely image of beauty: The Pietà
At the close of the 15th century, Michelangelo carved two figures out of what he claimed was the most perfect block of Carrara marble. The statue, which depicts the Virgin…
Bringing your feminine genius to the world
A few hours after our first child was born, my husband and I heard a knock at the hospital door. A Catholic woman and lay minister at the hospital entered…
