Dr. Sarah Denny Lorio
Bioethicist | Speaker |Â Podcast Host | Writer
Dr. Sarah Denny Lorio holds a PhD in Bioethics from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome (2022) and an MA in Theology from Notre Dame Seminary and Graduate School in New Orleans, LA (2013). Her doctoral research focused on the differing philosophies that affect the practice of women’s health in the United States of America. There, she consistently argued for a "third way" of sex education that teaches young people fertility awareness-based methods both as preventive medicine and as proximate vocation preparation. Having trained in two methods of fertility awareness—Creighton Model FertilityCare System (2013) and FEMM (2024)—Dr. Lorio's passion is to empower women through a deeper knowledge of the great gift and beauty of their bodies and sexuality. In her work within the field of women’s health, she consistently seek to integrate the demands of medicine with the dignity of womanhood.Â
Currently, Dr. Sarah Denny Lorio works part-time as an ethicist with the National Catholic Bioethics Center. Throughout the last 14 years, she has taught at both the university and high school levels: working as an ethics professor at Loyola University in New Orleans, teaching and coaching young women at Archbishop Chapelle High School, and speaking and leading international trips for college students as a campus minister at Louisiana State University.
Dr. Lorio's work focuses on the essential role of human freedom in the education of young women and men. She is in the process of developing a high school curriculum focusing on these issues as well as creating similar resources for parents seeking to have these ever-important conversations with their children.Â
She lives in New Orleans, LA, with her husband, Alex.Â