If you follow Catholic news and social media, you have probably heard about the Senate confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barretta nominee to the 7th Circuit Appeals Court, at which she was grilled about her Catholic faith. (If you missed the story, there is a very good op-ed piece from The New York Times, written…
By now, we are all used to hearing the phrase "women's empowerment." It has become almost synonymous with the notion of feminism. In some ways, this is a positive development. For most of history, women were kept on the sidelines and prevented from holding positions of authority simply because they were not men. In the…
Our society is experiencing a seemingly paradoxical phenomenon. On the one hand, mainstream feminism and, increasingly, society in general are deemphasizing the differences between men and women. Any suggestion that men and women have fundamentally different traits or roles in family and society is decried as misogynistic, and those who refuse to recognize the validity…
Today I'd like to share with you a beautiful reflection on women in professional life. It was originally given as a speech by Meg McDonnell at the Edith Stein Conference, but I ran across it in written form last year. As a young woman seeking to discern God's will for my life, and strongly suspecting…
Now that I've told you who the new feminist is and where the term "new feminism" comes from, you might be wondering what comes next. I mean, she can't go on expounding on her blog title forever, right? Right. Now that we've got the basics down, I'd like to give you a little preview of…
In my first post (and on the "About" page) I told you about my vision for this blog and about who "the new feminist" is. If you're not already familiar with the term "new feminism," though, you're probably still wondering what on earth it's all about. So I'd like to give you a little background.…
Welcome to The New Feminist, a blog about authentic femininity in light of Catholic tradition. For the record, I am not THE new feminist....I am A new feminist. The new feminist is each and every women when she embraces her God-given gifts and strives to live out her femininity in full. The new feminist believes…
The New Feminist 