“Beauty will save the world” - or so goes the line in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. But what is authentic beauty? Is it merely skin deep? What is beauty’s role in a broken world? This year’s Genuine Feminine conference took on these hefty questions and...

I wrote the following words as I sat in mass one evening a few months ago. The Lord put them on my heart to help reveal to me a truth that I had been missing, a truth that I needed to recognize to live in full abundance. I wrote:

“Beauty. It’s everywhere, all the time....

Beauty offers an invitation to rest—a welcome for all travelers to simply be. Her warmth beckons persons to draw closer and look deeper. Beauty points the heart to the freedom all were destined to know; her very presence allows others to breathe fresh air for the first...

       Who is the ideal woman that young girls aspire to become in our culture?

In the journey of growing from a girl to a woman, each one of us undergoes the comparison game between ourselves and the current celebrity or top model. We stand before our reflec...

       During Texas summers, the sun is merciless; it seizes the entire Lone Star state as its fiery domain, subjecting each person within the area to a sentence of very much heat and very little respite. Most creatures who can retreat from its immediate reac...

Ave Maria University’s Genuine Feminine Team had the honor of hosting Dr. Janet Smith as the key note speaker for the 8th annual Genuine Feminine conference on “Women and Family: The Sanctuary of Family Life.” Dr. Janet Smith was invited in recognition of the 50th anni...

Watch the latest video from our 2016 conference's keynote speaker, Christina Hoff Sommers (aka "The Factual Feminist"), in which she addresses the media's mishandling of anything gender-related. This is EXACTLY the reason why the open & honest dialogue we foster is so...

“I have noticed a common idea that having a career means a woman will neglect her family (or vice versa). I also have encountered girls who are so worried that they have not yet found their future husband, that they fail to focus the time they have on developing their...

Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

Reflect upon the manner in which God the Father protects His beloved daughter. Only when Adam implores the Lord for a suitable partner does God send forth woman as a gift for man and for all of creation.

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               This past Tuesday, September 27, Ave Maria University and Genuine Feminine Alumna Lilly Bozzone returned to campus to offer young women her insight on the Fashion Personalities. The evening...