Stories of Truly Virtuous Women Are Essential to the Raising of Our Daughters, by Kathleen Bowen

(LifeSiteNews) — We need more books, series, cartoons, and movies that tell stories that celebrate virtue.

Children’s characters are formed by the stories they hear and impressed by the heroes they admire, and we know this but have fallen behind in providing and distributing faith-literate stories and movies.

Disney on the other hand has quite effectively formed the characters of children, especially girls through the princesses that appear in their animated films. Disney princesses are not all together bad but they don’t exactly promote Catholic values. While we wait for excellent stories to come from Catholic authors and filmmakers, mothers need to dig deep and find stories about women who are worth imitating, women like Queen Isabella of Spain, St. Joan of Arc, and most especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. By promoting humility, purity, and a willingness to serve others through stories, a strong devotion will take root in little girls and they will grow to become virtuous women. …

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