Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 7, 2025 / 09:00 am
The Catholic News Agency portal reports on the launch of “The Better Part Journal” by Heidi Bollich-Erne, presented as the “first intellectual Catholic women’s journal” to “define the feminine genius” through interdisciplinary articles on neuroscience, media influence, and social issues. The publication explicitly draws inspiration from Wojtyła’s Mulieris Dignitatem (1988), with Bollich-Erne admitting “we all throw around the ‘feminine genius,’ but when you ask someone to stop and give an actual definition, most people can’t.” The journal claims fidelity to the “magisterium” while promising “freedom of voice” for contributors ranging from academics to nonacademics, with print editions released biannually to ensure permanence.
Counterfeit Catholicism Masquerading as Intellectualism
The journal’s foundational error lies in its uncritical adoption of Wojtyła’s neo-modernist term “feminine genius,” a concept alien to Catholic Tradition. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas (1925): “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (n.19). By elevating gender ideology over the universal call to holiness, the project subordinates regnum Christi to anthropological narcissism.
Nowhere does Bollich-Erne reference the Church’s perennial teaching on womanhood expressed in saints like Catherine of Siena (“You are she who is not, I AM HE WHO IS”) or Thérèse of Lisieux’s “little way” – both grounded in humilitas rather than worldly intellectualism. The Syllabus of Errors condemned precisely this inversion: “Philosophy is to be treated without taking any account of supernatural revelation” (Proposition 14).
Ecclesial Sabotage Through False Obedience
The claim of being “faithful to the magisterium” constitutes theological fraud when applied to post-1958 antipopes. As Pius X decreed in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Proposition 6). By treating Wojtyła’s personal opinions as magisterial, the journal propagates the conciliar sect’s heresy of collegiality.
Bollich-Erne’s academic credentials reveal the poison: a theology degree from the heterodox University of St. Thomas (Houston) and “Thomistic philosophy” studies at an institution compromising Aquinas with modernist thought. True Thomism was defined by Leo XIII’s Aeterni Patris (1879) as requiring “submission to divine revelation,” not interdisciplinary syncretism mixing neuroscience with Mariology – a violation of Syllabus Proposition 63: “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress.”
Naturalism Disguised as Womanly “Genius”
The journal’s planned articles expose its revolutionary agenda:
“discussion of issues women face including body image, infertility, and violence… psychology of fairy tales… what we are exposed to from the media”
This reduces Catholic womanhood to therapeutic activism, ignoring the Munera Triplex of priest, prophet, and king bestowed through baptism. Nowhere is mentioned the Rosary’s power, modesty as spiritual armor, or the eschatological urgency of penance – themes central to true female saints like Gemma Galgani or Joan of Arc.
Pius XII’s Sacra Virginitas (1954) warned: “The advocates of novelty easily pass from contempt of religious life to the contempt of virginity, and from this to the contempt of the marriage sacrament.” The journal’s focus on “violence” and “media influence” substitutes Freudian analysis for sacramental grace, precisely fulfilling Pius X’s condemnation: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Lamentabili, Proposition 57).
Print as Trojan Horse for Heretical Permanence
Bollich-Erne boasts the journal’s print format ensures lasting influence: “you never get rid of it because the topics are lasting.” This mimics the modernist strategy documented in the “False Fatima Apparitions” file: “Stage 1 (1917-1940): Implantation of the message and ‘negative credentialing’ through skepticism from authorities.” By enshrining neo-modernist errors in permanent print under the guise of “beauty,” the journal seeks to normalize apostasy among impressionable women.
The project’s funding through “JBG Publishings” raises further concerns. As the Syllabus condemned: “Lay authority possesses of itself the right of presenting bishops” (Proposition 50). By creating an independent publishing structure outside ecclesiastical control, the venture embodies the conciliar sect’s schismatic ecclesiology.
Conclusion: Spiritual Poison in Gilded Vessel
This journal constitutes not mere theological error but active warfare against Catholic womanhood. Its “feminine genius” mythology inverts the Mulieris Dignitatem of the true Church – the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum (Lk 1:38). Until women reject such intellectual vanity and return to the Regina Sacratissimi Rosarii, no earthly journal can restore their dignity. Let Catholic women heed Pius XI: “When men recognize… that Christ is King, society will at last receive… peace and harmony” – not through modernist “journals,” but through Eucharistic adoration and the Holy Rosary.
Source:
New print journal for ‘intellectual Catholic women’ to be released in April (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 07.12.2025