Confronting Gender Ideology in Family Life Ministry

Presenters: Theresa Farnan and Lucia Baez Luzondo, JD

Thursday, April 21, 2022

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In this session we will define what is gender ideology, its origins, and why it represents a clash of anthropologies with our Catholic view of the human person and why this ideology is antithetical to Catholic doctrine. We will also talk about the severe damage that is having in our children, youth, and young adults, and will share tools to confront this ideology in our ministry to families.

Theresa Farnan, PhD, is an author and moral philosopher who specializes in virtue ethics, moral education, philosophy of the person, gender and sexuality, and ethical issues facing the family. She has taught at St Paul Seminary in Pittsburgh, Franciscan University of Steubenville, and Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, MD. She served as a consultant to the USCCB Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth and is a member of the Catholic Women’s Forum Advisory Council. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including Our Sunday Visitor and First Things, and she speaks frequently on topics such as Christian anthropology, human dignity, disability, the family, and gender ideology. She is co-author of two books: Get out Now: Why You Should Pull Your Child from Public School Before It’s Too Late and an apologetics resource for teens, Where Did I Come From? Where Am I Going? How Do I Get There? She and her husband are the parents of ten children.   https://personandidentity.com/theresa-farnan/

Lucia Baez Luzondo, JD, Co-founder, Family Renewal Ministries, is an attorney, practical theologian, television and radio host, and co-founder of Family Renewal Ministries, Inc. (Renovación Familiar), a ministry dedicated to promoting and defending marriage, family, and the human person in God’s plan. Along with her husband, Ricardo Luzondo, M.D., Lucia co-hosts a weekly television series “Created to Love” (Creados para amar) aired on EWTN Global Catholic Television and a weekly live radio program, “In the Day to Day with Ricardo and Lucia” (En el día a día con Ricardo y Lucía) broadcast on EWTN Radio (Radio Católica Mundial), both aired in Spanish worldwide.
She has produced multiple articles, resources and materials on marriage preparation, marriage, and family enrichment, multiculturality and gender ideology. She has presented extensively in the United States, Latin America and Europe and has lead hundreds of retreats and trainings in her areas of expertise. Lucia has served as director of Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth Ministry and Intercultural Ministries in various archdioceses in the nation. She has also been collaborator and consultant to several Catholic publishers and entities on Hispanic marriage and family life and interculturality, including various Secretariats of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. She serves as a member of the Our Sunday Visitor Institute’s Hispanic Experience Think Tank. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Aquinas Center for Catholic Studies at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University and the Board of Trustees of Ignatius House in Atlanta, GA.
She was a presenter at the World Meeting of Families-Philadelphia 2015, the USCCB Catholic Leaders Conference- Orlando 2017 and was on-air commentator for primary signal for EWTN’s live broadcast of the World Meeting of Families -Ireland 2018.  She earned a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, a J.D. from Stetson University College of Law, and completed her Master of Practical Theology and Ministry studies at Barry University. She is a devoted wife mother of one son.
https://personandidentity.com/lucia-baez-luzondo/