Dr. Theresa Farnan

Dr. Theresa Farnan is a founding member of the Person and Identity Project, which provides theological and pastoral resources about Church teaching on gender ideology to Catholic schools and dioceses. She’s the author of  Get Out Now: Why You Should Pull Your Child From Public School Before It’s Too Late (co-authored with Mary Rice Hasson), and Where did I come from? Where am I going?  How do I get there? (co-authored with Dr. Charles Rice).

She has taught at St Paul Seminary in Pittsburgh, Franciscan University of Steubenville, and Mount St. Mary’s Seminary, and has worked with the diaconate formation program for the Dioceses of Harrisburg and Pittsburgh; 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.  She has given lectures on the gender ideology, Catholic education, theology of the body, the personalism of Pope John Paul II, the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, the vocation and dignity of women and the virtues. She hosted a television program on EWTN entitled St. Thomas Aquinas in Today’s World and appeared as a guest on EWTN Live.

Dr Farnan received her master’s degree and her doctorate in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame.  She and her husband Michael have ten children.