Among Women ReadHER 6.2.12... kids, Not-Cosmo, tech, and outrage....

Archbishop Lori and the First Principle
By Kathryn Jean Lopez at National Review Online
The fight for religious liberty continues, and whether Catholic lawsuits against Obamacare undo it or not remains to be seen. But the ramifications of this fight are huge. 

Outrage
By Betty Duffy at her blog by the same name
About casting the first stone... and the occasion of being disappointed in a priests' bad behavior.


Tech Talk Now a Daily Feature at CatholicMom.com
By Sarah Reinhard at CatholicMom.com
Always the go-to page for Moms, now even techier and geekier! Android and iPhone users rejoice! Sarah is my guest this week on AW 135.


Growing Up Without a Dad Affects [our] Concept of God
Posted at Zenit (The World Seen From Rome)
Part of a transcript of Pope Benedict's catechesis at the May 23rd General Audience in Rome. 


The Antidote to Cosmo
By Elizabeth Kantor at The Huffington Post
A new women's magazine -- Verily -- available online by subscription. Looks interesting in its inaugural edition... as their website says the women's mag's out there don't talk about real women... Note, this is not an article about a Catholic or Christian magazine, but it looks like a women's mag headed in a good direction, one that wants to uphold the beauty of women rather than exploiting it. That being said, I'm not endorsing anything here, just offering something that might be worth a look, and something that could grow. The blog for the new Verily magazine is here.

Do We Spend Enough Time with Our Kids?
By Mary Beth Hicks at Family Events
A great post as we head into summer, with additional articles listed as well. On this subject, don't miss this week's Among Women with Sarah Reinhard talking about her book about Catholic Family Fun.


H/T: Thanks for fine women at the Of Sound Mind and Spirit blog for linking to this:



H/T: One more, just for fun, via Lisa Hendey on Pinterest...

On Our Lady...

Today is the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and I invite you to hear about it in the Among Women podcast this week. Tonight, in the Gohn home, we'll be breaking out the Mexican food in her honor!

Besides, Mary is "Cause of our joy", so it's a great day all around...

But, I thought you might also appreciate a link to a very fine post by Mark Shea from earlier this week. While not specifically about Guadalupe, I thought it was a brillantly simple yet sublime treatise on Mary as Immaculata, and its import for our world.

Please do read the whole thing.

Here's a snippet:

For by Mary’s creaturely humility and God’s subsequent exaltation of her through the grace of Christ, she gives the lie to every proposition upon which the Philosophies of Pride were founded and reminds us again that salvation is found not by saying with Shelley’s hero Satan "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" but by saying "Let it be unto me according to your word."

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