Michelle Francl-Donnay is a professor of chemistry at Bryn Mawr College, writer, wife and (not incidentally) the mother of two teen-aged boys. Catholic since she was 8-days old, she enjoys the opportunity to join the Augustinian community at her local parish in praying the Liturgy of the Hours.
Michelle's column, Catholic Spirituality, appears in the Philadelphia Archdiocese's paper, the Catholic Standard and Times, and she is a regular essayist for the science journal Nature Chemistry. Her essays have appeared in several collections, including Professing and Parenting and The Open Laboratory 2009. She also blogs about the connections between chemistry and culture at The Culture of Chemistry.
She has been writing for the Philadelphia Archdiocese's newspaper, The Catholic Standard & Times, since 2008, and starting last fall she writes a column, Spiritual Fitness, for the Archdiocese's new magazine, Phaith. She is an occasional contributor to Give Us This Day, a resource for personal prayer from Liturgical Press, and is doing some writing for Liguori Publications, including this pamphlet on penance.
Other writing:
Occasional reflections on seasonal music can be found at RevGalBlogPals: Passion, Death and Resurrection (Easter music) and Sunday Afternoon Music Videos, and once upon a time, some book reviews: An Infinity of Little Hours/Into Great Silence and Friendship of Women
A link to a long ago op-ed piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer on venturing into silence.
