# Leah Libresco Sargeant

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What a Catholic feminist dares to say

In recent years, the idea of a “crisis of men and boys” has taken center stage in the cultural conversation. That can feel like a pendulum swing: from making space for women to examining men’s struggles, rarely holding both in view at the same time. Some see this moment as a reaction to the 2010 ...

Leah Libresco Sargeant on The Dignity of Dependence

Leah Libresco Sargeant and I talk about something simple that we spend a lot of time avoiding. We are not autonomous. We talk about women’s bodies, pregnancy, and the way those realities don’t fit a culture built around control and choice. We talk about the idea that a good life is one where eve ...

90. Have You 'Lost Yourself' in Motherhood?

Hi Lady! In this episode, I talk (at length!) about the idea of losing yourself in motherhood or not feeling like yourself after baby. I share how many hours of consecutive sleep I've found I need bare minimum in order to not feel like a zombie. But then I ask you to consider the question: what ...

Ep. 369 Katie Prejean McGrady Talks Pope Leo XIV & Leah Libresco Sargeant on 'The Family Plan'

As we mark 1 year of a Leonine papacy, Katie Prejean McGrady joins to reflect on the accessibility of Pope Leo XIV and what it was like to MC an event with the Holy Father and 5 teens who asked about mental health, prayer life, and AI. We also look ahead to his upcoming encyclical and the lens ...

Autonomy and Depedence | A Conversation with Leah Libresco Sargeant

What is the beauty and dignity of dependence? This week, Leah Libresco Sargeant joins Bryce and Ashley to discuss how individualism has created an illusion of autonomy that contradicts our identity as children of God, our need to see our strengths and crosses as fruitful because of God’s power, ...

Leah Libresco Sargeant/The Dignity of Dependence

We’re back! In this episode, Mary and KT discuss Leah Libresco Sargeant’s new(ish) book The Dignity of Dependence. Topics include reflections on whether the world is the wrong shape for women and a philosophical anthropology that is expansive enough for all people at all stages of life, irrespec ...

“Our Culture Worships Autonomy. What If We’re Wrong?” with Leah Libresco Sargeant | Ep. 47

Our culture prizes autonomy, independence, and self-sufficiency. But what happens when we inevitably need someone else? From the preborn child who is completely dependent on his or her mother, to the person living with profound disability, to the elderly patient who can no longer care for himsel ...

Leah Libresco-Sargeant: Equality, Interchangeability, and Making Sense of Gender Differences

We have spent decades asking whether women can do everything men can do. If they can’t, it’s considered a defect. If they can, we need not pull back the curtain on what they’ve had to sacrifice for sameness. Leah Libresco Sargeant asks the more interesting question: Why did interchangeability be ...

Holy Feminism? Muslim and Christian Feminists Discuss

Leah Libresco Sargeant and Hadia Mubarak join Matt and Shadi to discuss what feminism looks like within their respective commitments to Catholicism and Islam. Libresco, an author and speaker and atheist-to-Catholic convert, argues for the consistency of women's dignity and the Catholic faith, ev ...

An Empty Museum & an Urban Neighborhood

“A biography, but for things” was just one of several delightful turns of phrase offered by Tsh’s guest in this chat, Leah Libresco Sargeant, a writer, speaker, and all-around lovely human. Like all guests, she shares two books and two places that have shaped her. * The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Ba ...