Conference: Maria Goretti Project at Notre Dame

If you are around Notre Dame at 7 pm tonight through Thursday you might want to attend a conference called the Maria Goretti Project, which was planned by Notre Dame students, Anamaria Scaperlanda-Ruiz and Christina Dehan.  The conference focuses on a Catholic understanding of womanhood and addresses the painful realities of violence against women.  Although this conference is designed as a positive statement of authentic womanhood from a Catholic anthropology, I can't help but contrast it with the very secular anthropology at play in the "Vagina Monologues."

Speakers include Teresa Collett, Tracy McGinn, Amy McInerny, Nicole Garnett, and the two student sponsors.  The event will end with a prayer service on Thursday evening.  For more information, see the Notre Dame Ethics Bulletin.

Signed, a proud father