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Carla Galdo is a graduate of the John Paul II Institute, a writer and editor for the Catholic women’s book group Well-Read Mom, and a student in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative... Thomas-Houston. She lives with her husband, four sons and two daughters in Virginia. Carla Galdo is a poet, writer, and editor who has been featured in a variety of publications including Humanum: Issues in Family, Culture, and Science, Columbia Magazine, Our Sunday Visitor, Front Porch Republic and... Her poetry has appeared in Dappled Things, Modern Age, Solum Literary Journal, New Verse Review, The Windhover, and on Irish Southeast Radio. She is the recipient of the St.

Austin Review Prize (2024) and was a finalist in the Catholic Literary Arts Advent Poetry Contest (2022) and Sacred Poetry Contest (2024). Carla has been featured as a conference speaker and podcast host for Well-Read Mom, and as a guest on the podcasts Bright Wings and Catholic Culture. She has taught various classes in literature, theology, and book reviewing, and leads a Catholic Literary Arts poetry critique group for adult writers. Carla earned a Master’s in Theological Studies from the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, and an MFA in Poetry from the University of St. Thomas-Houston. She and her husband live with their six children on a small hobby farm in rural Virginia.

Before routine check-ups, teenagers are handed an iPad with a digital form designed to elicit information about the teenager’s sexual activity, drug use, and mental health. Teens are told to fill the questionnaire out on their own. Parents are not told how their child answered these sensitive questions—nor is there a sign informing parents of their rights to direct the upbringing of their children... There is almost no rival to the power that gender ideology seeks to wield. It seeks nothing less than god-like power, using language not to clarify what is real but to divide, disrupt, and disorient. It cleaves body and soul (“gender identity”), bringing not peace but a sword.

Gender ideology does not deal in objective material facts or diagnosable physical conditions but presents an alternative worldview about the truth and the nature of the human person. The United Nations (UN) is a complex, esoteric institution that many ignore or misunderstand. Often perceived as quasi-mythical or useless, it operates largely unnoticed. Its inner workings—vast bureaucratic networks, billion-dollar programs, and year-round General Assembly meetings in New York—are unfamiliar at best. Many view it as ineffective, believing it has failed to achieve its expressed goal of saving “future generations from the scourge of war.” The term “agents of control” likely evokes the great dystopian image of Big Brother, the classic literary symbol of totalitarianism, historically realized to a significant degree in the Soviet Union.

The regime exercised a monopoly of power from its command economy to its state-run education and media to its vast propaganda machine—all of which aimed to control the horizon of meaning. However gripping it might have been, this is not the specter that haunts us now. We won the Cold War, after all. The Iron Curtain fell, the Berlin Wall crumbled. And yet, there is a widespread sense of insecurity about our freedom, about the omnipresence of things that control us, not from a single center but from multiple loci. Once upon a time, people gathered to eat their meals; they sat around a table facing each other and gave thanks to God for the food which they smelled, touched, and tasted; they looked...

In stark contrast, people are now prone to eating alone in front of the computer, television set, cell phone, or steering wheel; they frequently forget to give thanks to God for the food which... “Sex” and “gender” are not facts of nature just lying there waiting to be discovered by the neutral rationality of science. And the distinction between a merely biological “sex” and a social or psychological “gender” is not a scientific distinction. It is not the discovery of detached empirical observation or the result of experimental testing but is an a priori interpretive lens for processing empirical and experimental data whose conceptual origins lie elsewhere... To My Alleged Accomplices (New Verse Review 2.2) Easter Triduum (Humanum: Issues in Family, Culture, and Science April 2025)

Elegy for All Souls’ Day (Solum Journal 2023) What then Must We Do: Remembering Dr. David L. Schindler (Humanum: Issues in Family, Culture, and Science January 2023) Star of the Sea (Finalist, Catholic Literary Arts, Advent 2022, Mary, Mother of Holy Hope Writing Contest) Motherhood problematized Mary Harrington’s concept of her own personhood.

With the arrival of her baby, Harrington, author of the recent Feminism Against Progress, was immersed in a physical and emotional bond to a being outside of herself who suddenly determined her existence. The radicality of this bond obliterated her sense of being an autonomous individual as she witnessed her personhood emerge in its fullness in the context of a deeply embedded relationship between herself and her... I wonder if it is accurate to speak of a “loss” of meaning in our lives. Or, for that matter, I wonder if it is accurate to speak of “finding” meaning. These words, losing and finding, imply that meaning is “out there,” perhaps waiting, or hiding, and one need only look in the right places to find it. Certainly, this is how many of us respond to the desire for meaning in our lives.

We spend our time in an anxious search for the right vocation, the right job, the right spouse, the right home—all in the hopes of finding meaning there. Our day and age is marked by unprecedented levels of anxiety, isolation, depression, and suspicion of each other. We are no less communal beings, in need of one another in order to live full, authentically human lives, and yet we are less and less able to find real examples of what authentic... In the face of this challenge, the concept of hospitality can be particularly illuminating. It is just as true that hospitality is becoming a lost art in today’s culture. I have been averse to technology for a while; like many “tech-hesitant” twenty-something women, the initial trigger was social media.

For several varied and unsurprising reasons, mainly time-consumption and vanity, I deleted my accounts in an impulsive moment of annoyance about three years ago. The “What have I done?” feeling that quickly followed left me riddled with agitating questions. Would I be able to maintain distant friendships without “liking” pictures on Instagram? How would I stay politically up to date without Twitter? Did I need SnapChat to stay connected? Every once in a while, there comes along an exception to G.W.F.

Hegel’s dictum “The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the onset of dusk.” While the observation that theory is able to express the essence of an age only after it has entered... A case in point is French political theorist Bertrand de Jouvenel’s classic book, On Power. One hesitates to write about “authority” because in today’s culture the concept carries such a stigma that the danger of being misunderstood and getting mired down in ideological diatribes is very high. Yet, the very fact that it is hard to talk about authority confirms that this is the punctum dolens of modern Western culture. This was also the opinion of Augusto Del Noce (1910–1989) who in 1975 dedicated to the theme of authority a long essay of the same title, in which he argues that “the eclipse of...

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