Epiphany – October 10, 2024

Brenda Marshall invites teen girls to the Teen Rosary Conference.

Brenda Marshall is a native of the Detroit area who has a keen desire to spread knowledge about the Catholic Faith, and in particular, about Mary, the Mother of God, with a view to making her better known and loved.

Employing teaching and writing skills honed through her time in academia, she has taught the Rosary to students in Catholic schools, spoken at retreats and conferences, and worked in religious education and youth ministry.

She is the founder of Rosary Firewall, a ministry dedicated to teaching, and spreading knowledge about the Rosary, with the aim of evangelization through its outreach to individuals, and the community.

Dr. Theresa Farnan invites everyone to a speaking event.  A Pastoral Response to Gender Ideology: Balancing Compassion and Truth in Gender Identity Ministry.

Theresa Farnan, Ph.D., is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center focusing on the challenges of gender ideology as part of EPPC’s Person and Identity Project. She is the co-author of two books, Get Out Now: Why You Should Pull Your Child from Public School Before It’s Too Late and Where Did I Come From? Where Am I Going? How Do I Get There? She has taught at St. Paul Seminary in Pittsburgh, Franciscan University of Steubenville, and Mount St. Mary’s Seminary and has worked with the diaconate formation program for the Dioceses of Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. She served as a consultant to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth and is a member of the Catholic Women’s Forum Advisory Council. She serves on the Ethics and Public Policy Committee of the National Catholic Partnership on Disability. She has lectured widely on the gender ideology, Catholic education, theology of the body, the personalism of Pope John Paul II, the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and the vocation and dignity of women. She hosted St. Thomas Aquinas in Today’s World on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN). She received her master’s degree and her doctorate in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame. She and her husband, Michael, have ten children.

Register for A Pastoral Response to Gender Ideology here: REGISTER