Leila Lawler

Leila Marie Lawler is a wife, mother of seven, and grandmother of many. She lives in Central Massachusetts.

Leila encountered Christianity as a high school student, was baptized, and entered the Catholic Church in 1979, the year she was married to Philip F. Lawler, noted Catholic author and editor of Catholic World News.

Leila practices “kitchen sink philosophy” at Like Mother, Like Daughter, a website for practical and theoretical insight into all aspects of daily life. She writes on everything from cooking and knitting to education and recovering what she and her daughters call “the collective memory.” Her other blog, Happy Despite Them, offers occasional observations and essays on various topics.

Her books include the three-volume “Summa Domestica: Order and Wonder in Family Life”, a compendium of all her wit and wisdom from Like Mother, Like Daughter, organized with new material and a helpful index; “The Little Oratory: A Beginner’s Guide to Praying in the Home” (with David Clayton), and “St. Hildegard’s Garden" (all from Sophia Institute Press), and “God Has No Grandchildren: A guided reading of Pius XI’s encyclical Casti Connubii, On Chaste Marriage” (2nd edition) is available from Arouca Press.

Leila is also Fellow of the Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture, a project of Thomas More college of the Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire.