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...

The F.U.N. Quotient... dirty dishes edition

One silly and spoofy... 



One somewhat serious... but you'll love this one... (Go ahead, Mom, crank it up!)

Among Women Podcast #135: Books: For the Fun of It!

Among Women 135 takes a look at a new book, Catholic Family Fun, from Catholic wife and mom, author-blogger, Sarah Reinhard. Together we share fun memories of growing up, and ways to keep families bonded together using the glue of fun! It's all part of the conversation we had as we take ideas from her new book and head into the summer months. Plus enter a special free drawing for this book! (Send in your name to via the contact details below.)

Check out Sarah's previous guest post on the AW blog from last month.

Also featured in this episode, a reading describing the faith and faith-filled death of St Monica, patron of mothers, from Augustine's Confessions.


This week, we have a few announcements!

Don't forget to make your reservations to attend the Catholic New Media Conference, Aug. 29-31 in Dallas.


Among Women Special Edition: on Joy!  Send Pat your reflections on what gives you joy, or where you find joy... for a future edition of the Among Women Podcast later this summer.  Contact Pat at pat.gohn@comcast.net or find AW on facebook.

Finally, listen to this new podcast as Pat announces her book project that will be of special interest to the AW listening audience.

Milan: VII Meeting for Families - "Work and Celebration"

Like a World Youth Day for families, you can get more details here. The Pope celebrate Mass in Milan on June 3. Some catechesis for families found here.

This makes me think.... a profound prayer for a contrite heart

With a Contrite Heart


Prevent me, Lord, from confounding
The mystery of you life in me
With willful self-mastery.
May my gentleness not be a facade;
May it flow froth from my inmost center
Where you reign supreme.
Save me from becoming
A proud paradigm
Of perfect self-control,
A worshiper
Of poise and self-possession.
Save me from pressure 
Of exalted ideals
That deny my humanness
Let my soul not be maimed
By perverted gentility
Grant me the gift to pray
With a contrite heart
And be saved daily 
From the deception
Of pious fantasies.


-- Adrian van Kaam, from Practicing the Prayer of Presence, with Susan Muto.

Thank you, Veterans!

Let us thank our vets and pray for their families.

"Greater love has no man than this, 

that a man lay down his life 

for his friends." 

John 15:13. 

Among Women ReadHER 5.26.12 Pentecost check in, Catholic lawsuits, Sibs, Silent no more...

Among Women ReadHER

5.25.12

Why We are Fighting (and Filing): Setting the Record Straight
By Emily Stimpson at CatholicVote.org
Reminders about the HHS Mandate fight and the Catholic institutions that are taking up the charge in court.


Cardinal Dolan of NY, Cardinal Wuerl of DC, and 40 Other Catholic Institutions Sue Obama Administration 
Posted at CNSnew.com
This is almost old news, but read it in case you've been out of touch this week.


Surprise! MSM Ignoring Catholic Lawsuits Against the Government
By Elizabeth Scalia, The Anchoress
A more recent take on the subject above.


15 Years and Silent No More
By Kat Fernandez at The Crescat
Powerful, poignant, memoir of another woman who regrets abortion.


The Norm of Co-Habitation
By Bernard Toutounji at Mercator.net
A look at this phenomenon and how not to co-habitate strengthens a relationship prior to marriage.


Sibling Revelry
By Rachel Balducci at Faith and Family
A great perspective on the gift of siblings through the years.


Simcha Fisher this week with a two-part knock-out punch (um, in a good way.)
Over at her blog at National Catholic Register...
Part 1: Is This What Abstinence-Only Education Looks Like?
Part 2: What SHOULD We Tell Our Kids about Sex

Career vs Baby Making
Posted by Julie Robison at A Corner with a View
An 8-min. video on the "window" of having one's own children... The video is not by Julie herself, but another woman. However, if you'd like to hear Julie, check her out on AW 132 and 133 with "The Bright Maidens."

The Great Pentecost Mass Check-In
By Lisa Hendey at Catholic Mom. com
A fun and easy way to talk up Sunday's Mass for Pentecost. And while you're at Catholic Mom, admire the new website upgrade.

My Latest over at Patheos on Evangelization

Check out my latest column on Patheos at A Word in Season, where the word is evangelization, and where I'm talking about what the heart of the new evangelization must be in us.

Here's a snip...

The heart of the new evangelization is not the Year of Faith, or the forthcoming Synod, or the next great pope, or the next great book, or parish program, or even all new Catholic media on the internet or the broadcast bands or in film.

No. The heart of the new evangelization is an actual beating heart.

It is the heart of Jesus that burns with love for us.

And it is our hearts that yearn to be one with his.

The heart of the new evangelization is about a Person, the Person of Jesus Christ, and our encounter—our living encounter—with him.

Everything starts there, and everything must flow back there.

Read it all.

This makes me think... to never stop seeking God...

For Those Searching for God

O Lord my God,
Teach my heart this day where and how to see you,
Where and how to find you.
You have made me and remade me,
And you have bestowed on me
All the good things I possess,
And still I do not know you.
I have not yet done that
For which I was made.
Teach me to seek you,
For I cannot seek you
Unless you teach me,
Or find you
Unless you show yourself to me.
Let me seek you in my desire,
Let me desire you in my seeking.
Let me find you by loving you,
Let me love you when I find you.

-- Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, theologian, philosopher, monk, Doctor of the Church (d. 1109).

Among Women ReadHER 5.19.12 ...the lite version (referring to the # of articles, NOT the content)

Blogging will be light this week as my daughter graduates and I tend to family, but I wanted to pass along these finds from the past week. 

Among Women ReadHER 5.19.12

In Celebration of the Feminine Genius
By Emily Stimpson at Our Sunday Visitor
Well put, with good reference works in the side bar. Also this piece by Emily Stimpson: Catholic Women in Their Own Words.


Live the Law of the Gift
By Kathryn Lopez at K-Lo at Large at Patheos
A highly excerpted review of Cardinal Timothy Dolan's Commencement Address last weekend at Catholic University of American in Washington, DC. Very good.


Love Both Conditional and Unconditional
By Father Robert Barron at Word on Fire
This is an audio podcast version of Fr. Barron's amazing sermon from last Sunday. Do listen. Consider subscribing to the podcast he puts out every week. It will really boost your faith.


The Face of Attachment Parenting
By Elizabeth Foss at her Real Learning blog
The best response by far to the TIME magazine cover that caused a stir with an full frontal photo of a mother nursing an older toddler. Elizabeth is one of the wisest women in the mothering circles. One day I hope to meet her in person to thank her for all I've "read" of her for years. I did have the delight of talking to her, together with Danielle Bean, for this AW podcast a while back.

The F.U.N. Quotient... ya gotta laugh...

Click here: Fr. James Martin joking around. 

image: morguefile

Another Gohn Grad!

Congrats to our middle child, our daughter Katie, who graduates from Boston University, magna cum laude, with double majors in history and political science.

We are so proud of you!

It seems like only yesterday I was posting this missive about your first day at college, or who can forget our exquisite mother-daughter rendezvous in Paris while you studied in London! Not to mention your own contribution to Among Women 102. 

Thank you for being a wonderful, faith-filled daughter. Your Dad, brothers and I love you so much!

Where to next? Can't wait to find out!



Blogging will be light into next week.