​Janet E. Smith is retired from Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, MI where she held the Father Michael J. McGivney Chair of Life Ethics. She is the author of several books on the topics of the Church’s sexual ethics, homosexuality, and bioethics.
Prof Smith has served on several papal commissions. She has received three honorary doctorates and several other awards for scholarship and service.
She has appeared on the Geraldo show, Fox Morning News, CNN International, CNN Newsroom, Al Jazeera and has done many shows on EWTN, and other Catholic podcasts.
More than two million copies of her talk, “Contraception: Why Not” have been distributed.
In her retirement she is helping victims of the priestly sexual abuse crisis, writing on the glories of the Traditional Latin Mass and trying to finish several scholarly projects and enjoying her little house on a lake. Her materials can be found at janetsmith.org. Free copies of her talks and many of her columns are available there.
