About the 2025 Future with Hope Women's Conference

Maria's new book, A Beautiful Second Act, contains encouragement and wisdom from the likes of Hildegard of Bingen, Dorothy Day, Josephine Bakhita, Grandmama Moses and those Maria calls "contemporary soul sisters" who experienced challenges in their transition to midlife and beyond.

Maria also will present on her book Our Lady of Charity: How a Cuban Devotion to Mary Helped Me Grow in Faith and Love.

She is also the author of the best-selling My Badass Book of Saints. She writes about all the things that she loves. A cradle Catholic, she struggles with living in the world but not being of it, and blogs about those successes and failures. She is the Media Editor at Catholicmom.com, an arm of Holy Cross Family Ministries, and hosts the Catholic Mom podcast and CatholicMom prayercast. You can follow Maria on Substack. She and her husband of 40 years recently moved to Virginia.

• Two presentations by Maria: one on her new book, A Beautiful Second Act, and one on her book Our Lady of Charity: How a Cuban Devotion to Mary Helped Me Grow in Faith and Love. 
• Small-group discussion with women like you.
• Catered breakfast and lunch.
• An in-person tour of the newly renovated Cathedral.
• Mass with the Cathedral community.

... All for $74! Register today online, or mail a check, payable to Future with Hope Women, to 4201 Wilson Blvd. #110328, Arlington, VA 22203.

Please note:  

A reduced rate at a nearby hotel for Friday night is available.

After you register, you also will have the opportunity to pay separately for a Friday night $55 three-course dinner with Maria at Pirouette, which is two blocks from the hotel and whose chef recently was named the best chef in Arlington. Seats are limited; first come, first served. The link for the dinner and hotel will be provided once you register.