CV NEWS FEED // A Catholic apostolate for women’s formation now offers a new certification program to empower Catholic women to be authentically feminine leaders in today’s culture.
The Women of Grace Benedicta Institute for Women is an organization that provides courses to “educate, develop, and train Catholic women to be leaders and mentors of the day by way of the Feminine Genius and their gift of spiritual maternity.”
According to a press release, the “Certification in Catholic Women’s Leadership” program will “enable women to infuse family life, communities, institutions, and organizations with a culture of life.
Johnette Benkovic Williams, founder of the program, said that women who receive the certification “will be formed and shaped according to the heart and mind of Holy Mother Church in the fullness of the Feminine Genius, the Blessed Virgin Mary.”
“Through the spiritual and leadership formation provided, women will be imbued with the Marian character, confidence, and skill to bring Jesus Christ to the world and the world to Jesus Christ, no matter her position or state in life,” Williams said, according to Christian Newswire. “In so doing, she will do much to create ‘a civilization of love.’”
The program takes 2-3 years and is equivalent to 24 credits. To make it more accessible to women, immersives, electives, and seminars are held both in-person and online.
According to its website, the program focuses on four components: God and the Human Person, Mariology, Carmelite Spirituality, and Catholic Women’s Leadership. It is taught by well-known Catholic instructors, including Dr. Donald Wallenfang, who teaches at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit, and Dr. Monica Miller, a national speaker on pro-life issues and femininity.
“The Benedicta Institute offers an entirely unique course of study to earn a Certificate in Catholic Women’s Leadership according to the wisdom of the most outstanding female voices of the Church’s living tradition of faith,” Wallenfang said, according to Christian Newswire. “Compelling witnesses such as Catherine of Alexandria, Hildegard of Bingen, Teresa of Ávila, Joan of Arc, and Edith Stein lead us in contemplating the faithful face of woman in a fragile world so to ‘aid humanity in not falling.’”
The first course, focusing on “God and the Human Person,” begins April 22.
