What Are the Common Goods Surrounding the Pregnant Mother?
Claire Fyrqvist on listening.
Claire Fyrqvist
Claire Fyrqvist is a mother, writer, and pro-life activist. Having spent several years working in the pro-life movement, she now helps run a Montessori co-operative preschool, and seeks to integrate human dignity and the defense of all life in the context of radical home making.
Articles
Are Real-Life Pro-Lifers Only Pro-Birth?
Claire Fyrqvist, writer and pro-life activist, questions the conventional wisdom that pro-lifers only care about the baby in the womb.
Welcoming the Child: Foundations of the Hospitable Imagination
Claire Fyrqvist argues that the meaning of hospitality inherent to pregnancy should color both our politics and our Catholic imagination more broadly.School as Personalist Community
Education is power. I’ve heard this many times, and I don’t disagree. However, our educational system is in crisis. Our diocesan schools are in crisis, and the solutions coming from the top don’t really seem to be helpi...
An Ethic of Listening
I love to write and speak—definitely a verbal processor—but I wouldn’t say I’m naturally a good listener. This double-edged sword makes me an effective rhetorician but also a candidate for what St. Paul refers to ...
St. Teresa of Kolkata: Icon of Human Dignity
I first “met” Mother Teresa when I was about eight years old passing countless times by a small magazine clipping posted on our fridge. On it was one of those striking photographs of her holding a small child, the lines deep ...
