The clearest glimpses I have had of God’s creative work have come through the bodies of women and their children. After a decade of practice, midwifery has...
Women in the church
Explore how women have contributed to the Catholic Church—historically and at present—and the pursuit of gender equity and visibility in church service.
Katie Holler calls motherhood a “transformative experience.” It inspired her to found the Dorothea Project, a group of Catholic women pushing Catholic clergy...
My first encounter with the knitting Madonna (as some call her) was not in church or in a museum, but rather on the internet. I was aimlessly cycling through...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts While people sometimes use the term “the church” as shorthand for the Vatican or the magisterium, the church...
In Their Own Words is a new web column from U.S. Catholic. In these essays, academics and other experts provide short, evidence-based explanations of prominent...
A Vatican commission has again said “no” to women deacons, while leaving the door cracked. Opening it wider can’t be a task for women alone. Following the...
When Meg Cady, a 32-year-old math teacher at St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago, prayed the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises with a group of teachers from her...
For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics around the country. We also invite...
A popular diagram among conservative Christians depicts a stack of open umbrellas. The biggest one, sheltering the others, is labeled “God.” The next is...
A millennium and a half before Jorge Bergoglio became pope, a baby girl was born on the margins: Neither here nor there, neither slave nor free, neither...
