“But even though time may have buried the documentary evidence of those achievements, their beneficent influence can be felt as a force which has shaped the lives of successive generations, right up to our own. To this great, immense feminine “tradition” humanity owes a debt which can never be repaid.”

-John Paul II, Letter to Women

August 2024

  • Not a Place Where No One is Watching: The Courage of Noor Inayat Khan, Pacifist and War Hero

    “[T]he hare lay in the grass in the woods, and his beautiful eyes were moist with sadness. ‘What can I offer if any poor creature should pass by the way?’ he thought. ‘I cannot offer grass, and I have neither rice nor nuts to give.’ But suddenly he leaped with joy. ‘If someone comes this

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  • Dignity of Shelter: Julia Morgan and the YWCA

    California’s first licensed female architect and one of the first female graduates from Beaux-Arts in Paris, Julia Morgan is best known as the designer of the elaborate and expensive Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Lesser known is her more prolific work for a client very different from William Randolph Hearst; and perhaps she should

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  • Marcia Lucas: Film and Heart

    Mark Hamill once claimed that Marcia Lucas, one-time wife of George Lucas and one of the film editors that won an Academy Award for her work on Star Wars, “was really the warmth and the heart of those films”. She was also, perhaps, one of the most experienced and accomplished talents on the crew. By…

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  • “All the World is Waiting for You”: Wonder Woman and the Feminine Genius of Edith Stein

    “But the hour is coming, in fact has come, when the vocation of women is being achieved in its fullness, the hour in which woman acquires in the world an influence, an effect, and a power never hitherto achieved. That is why, at this moment when the human race is undergoing so deep a transformation,

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