Thus what I hope to lay out in this article is not an iron-clad rule for when you should become intimate in a relationship. Instead what I aim to present today is a case for delaying intimacy in a relationship and taking it slower – leaving the interpretation of what “slower” means up to each individual.

Wordsworth called “our tainted nature’s solitary boast” woman. Wordsworth believed that our world’s only hope is woman.

Fr. Michael Paris The complications that feminism brought about in recent times for both men and women will not be solved by embracing the modern gratifications from it, nor by turning back the clocks. Rather, John Paul II writes that the world needs a clarification on the dignity of womanhood and how her changing role is changing society in a positive manner. Fr. Mike draws heavily from Mulieris Dignitatem.

The following is a piece taken from Maura Byrne's Made in His Image. For the link to the original location, scroll beneath the passage. Maura Byrnes spearheaded a new movement called Made in His Image (MIHI), a non-profit which exists to offer hope and healing to victims and survivors of abuse and women struggling with eating disorders. It's an awesome site worth checking out and sharing with a friend. Find her on facebook too!

Something we’ve all come across before is the reality that someone we once knew is no longer the same person. And that’s ok. Change is good. I freaking hate change, but change is necessary.

It was one of the last times I met with my one friend before she graduated that she gave me The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything by James Martin. The following are some of the most beautiful insights to friendship I’ve ever received, paraphrased a la moi.

Girlfriends are the ones who will get you through the gritty parts of life. But you have to reach out to them. I fell into this smut (thesaurus is telling me smut is another word for porn, but I’m creating the word ‘smut’ to mean rut….oh hey), so I fell into this rut the fall of my junior year when I thought a lot of my friends were coupling up and cutting me off.