Theresa Farnan

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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.

 

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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 is the editor of Gender Ideology and Pastoral Practice: A Handbook for Catholic Clergy, Counselors, and Ministerial Leaders and has co-authored 4 chapters. 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.

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EPPC Scholars File Supreme Court Amicus Brief Urging Reversal of Colorado Law Effectively Mandating “Gender…

Eric Kniffin, Mary Rice Hasson, Theresa Farnan

On Friday, June 13, 2025, scholars Mary Rice Hasson, Theresa Farnan, Eric Kniffin, and Susan Selner-Wright, PhD, filed a Supreme…

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PDF / June 16, 2025

Letters from Rome 2025, No. 6—The Papal Interregnum

George Weigel, Mary Rice Hasson, Theresa Farnan

The Anthropological Revolution and Its Challenge by Theresa Farnan and Mary Hasson  Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Veritatis Splendor begins with a prophetic…

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First Things / May 3, 2025

Trump Ends Government Promotion of Gender Ideology and Child Mutilation

Eric Kniffin, Mary Rice Hasson, Theresa Farnan

Trump’s ban on gender transitioning has turned the tide on an indefensible cult,” writes Telegraph columnist Suzanne Moore. “The pretense that sex can…

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First Things / January 31, 2025

PIP on “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal…

Mary Rice Hasson, Theresa Farnan

PIP welcomes the Trump Administration’s “Day One” Executive Order “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal…

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The Person and Identity Project / January 21, 2025

Humanae Vitae and Catholic Sexual Morality

Theresa Farnan

In December 2022, a group of Catholic scholars gathered in Rome to take part in a conference titled “A Response…

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There Is Nothing Worth Saving in America’s Public Schools

Mary Rice Hasson, Theresa Farnan

The heart of their mission is to indoctrinate children into being atheistic gender ideologues.

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The American Spectator / June 23, 2023

Our world has lost the Catholic understanding of human anthropology

Theresa Farnan

In a growing national divide, 16 states have recently passed laws limiting or banning “gender transition” procedures, while three states — and counting — have declared themselves “trans sanctuaries.”

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Our Sunday Visitor / June 2, 2023