Author
Margaret H. McCarthy
Margaret H. McCarthy is assistant professor of theological anthropology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America.
Bibliography
Articles in Communio
6 Articles
The Emperor’s (New) New Clothes: The Logic of the New “Gender Ideology”
Appears in Nature in Theology · Fall-Winter 2019 · Vol. 46, no. 3-4
“[T]o be sexual is to be the kind of being that owes its very existence to others. It is to be always already in relation to the opposite sex.”
All the Talk About Silence
Appears in The City · Winter 2016 · Vol. 43, No. 4
Gender Ideology and the Humanum
Appears in Body and Gender · Summer 2016 · Vol. 43, No. 2
“The theory of gender as a ‘social construct’ is one of the ways we ‘crucify’ our human nature—and those who speak for it.”
Vatican II and the Church’s “Openness to the World”
Appears in “Keeping the World Awake to God”: The Challenge of Vatican II · Spring-Summer 2012 · Vol. 39, no. 1-2
“Having received the revelation of the Mystery for which the world was made, but does not yet possess, the Church bears a responsibility for the world.”
Experience, Feminism, and the Need for Christian Witnesses
Appears in The Nature of Experience · Summer 2010 · Vol. 37, No. 2
“Christian witness begins, if you will, with a kind of ocular evidence of something else .”
‘Husbands, Love Your Wives as Your Own Bodies’: Is Nuptial Love a Case of Love or Its Paradigm?
Appears in Love / Biotechnology & Morality, Part III · Summer 2005 · Vol. 32, No. 2
“Here one encounters ‘another self’ not only by seeing in the other a similarity but also because by associating with this other in his or her difference one now has oneself—one now has one’s ‘body’—all the more.”