Postpartum Depression and Social Responsibility

This poignant reflection explores the enduring presence of a child lost too soon and the complex realities of parental grief. Through memory, imagination, faith, and longing, it captures the tension between the life that is and the life that might have been.

This reflective essay captures the bittersweet transition of motherhood as a daughter leaves her childhood home to begin married life. Through memories, loss, and gratitude, it explores the sacred tension between holding on and letting go.

This reflective essay explores motherhood as a journey of love, sacrifice, healing, and surrender. Drawing from her own experience of raising five children through divorce, hardship, and transition into adulthood, Elizabeth Leon reflects on learning to relinquish control, trust in God, and embrace the evolving vocation of motherhood while rediscovering her own identity beyond it.

True and lasting happiness is rooted not in achievement or circumstance, but in love, meaningful relationships, faith, and purpose. Drawing on decades of mentoring women and her own life experiences, the author reflects on the choices and habits that help women cultivate genuine joy—even through hardship.

his article examines postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis through the lens of social responsibility, emphasizing the importance of support networks before, during, and after a mental health crisis. It argues that effective care must extend beyond diagnosis and treatment to include prevention, family and community support, rehabilitation, and the rebuilding of a meaningful life.

Reconciling work and family is no longer enough. This article argues that women—and organizations—must move beyond the concept of work-life balance toward genuine integration, embracing flexible leadership, supportive workplace cultures, and a human-centered approach that recognizes people as whole persons rather than simply productive resources.

Women are not called to achieve perfect balance, but to cultivate harmony by integrating work, family, personal fulfillment, and care through meaningful relationships and supportive communities. Drawing on insights from theology, philosophy, psychology, and literature, this essay argues that authentic flourishing is made possible not through self-sufficiency, but through networks of friendship, generosity, and shared responsibility.

"There is a widespread malaise that envelops the entire healthcare landscape... It is not merely a question of economic resources. It is, rather, a question of human resources." Binetti's editorial locates the crisis facing modern healthcare not in funding but in a lost relational dimension — the erosion of the "gaze" that once bound doctor and patient in shared understanding. Her answer is a renewed case for Medical Humanities: not a nostalgic counterweight to artificial intelligence, but its necessary companion, ensuring that as technology grows more powerful, humanity grows to match it.

Parental Alienation Syndrome Doesn't Exist, Alienating Behaviors Do" examines how mothers who protect their children from a violent parent are often themselves recast as the problem — accused of "alienating" behavior through informal labels rather than any scientifically valid diagnosis — and traces the economic and psychological toll this pattern takes.

The debate surrounding a three-year-old child's choice of toys has reignited broader questions about gender, childhood, and the role of medicine in interpreting normal developmental behaviors. The author argues that pediatric care must remain firmly grounded in scientific evidence, clinical judgment, and respect for children's natural development, cautioning against ideological interpretations that risk transforming ordinary childhood experiences into clinical diagnoses.

Only three of Italy's twenty regions have passed assisted-suicide laws, all copied from the same template. Paola Binetti examines how these laws invert the health system's mission — from curing and accompanying patients to facilitating death — and argues the other regions' caution deserves to be read as a defense of the right to care, not as paralysis.

The real challenge for women's leadership isn't only reaching spaces of power — it's transforming them without losing the soul. Adriana Sirito proposes spiritual intelligence as the key to exercising authority without dehumanizing oneself.

Care is the invisible infrastructure — made of time, presence, and shared responsibility — that sustains Mexico's development and makes the real exercise of freedom, equality, and justice possible. No one arrives alone at where they are.

The term «gender» has become a central concept in contemporary cultural discourse, but also a deeply ambiguous category. This article proposes a philosophical model of six gender paradigms, analyzes the rupture between classical feminism and queer and trans currents, and offers directions for a more rigorous philosophical dialogue from Catholic thought.

Generational differences affect the relationship between university students and professors, with consequences for learning. This article presents the methodology and results of an intergenerational dialogue experience on the question of gender, carried out with 50 young people and 50 adults at a university in Mexico.

Artificial intelligence as an ethical test, and the responsibility of women in building a dignified future. The decisive question of our time is not only what artificial intelligence can do, but what it is doing to us, and what kind of humanity we are willing to defend.

This article examines, through the lens of Person-Centered Feminism, the contradiction between the celebration of football and the ongoing crisis of violence and disappearances in Mexico. It argues that true “fair play” requires placing human dignity, justice, and solidarity at the center of social life.

For more than four decades, Julieta Lujambio has woven together three dimensions of her life—communication, motherhood, and social commitment—into a single vocation: giving a voice to those who rarely have one.

Gender identity raises questions about dignity, rights, freedom, and how societies balance individual self-determination with the common good.

Domestic violence takes many forms beyond physical abuse, including psychological, sexual, economic, and vicarious violence. This piece explores its roots, warning signs, consequences, and the need for protection, education, and cultural change.

Female migration has a profoundly human and painful face. In Mexico, Latin America, and the world, millions of women migrate not for adventure, but out of desperation: they flee poverty, domestic violence, organized crime, abandonment, and lack of opportunity. Many leave their children behind with the hope that the distance will allow them to support them. Others take them with them on a journey that frequently becomes a nightmare.

There are forms of violence that make no noise. They leave no visible bruises and do not occupy headlines every day. Yet they silently inhabit millions of homes. One of them is paternal abandonment and the disproportionate burden that millions of women face when raising their children alone.

A week-long visit from the Pontifical International Marian Academy to Washington, D.C. brought together theology, Marian spirituality, academic exchange, and Catholic women’s leadership.