Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Radical equality, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or social class, was at the heart of the faith and practice of the early...
Women in the church
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Are we on the path to a more just politics and equitable world? If we are, women are going to lead us there. It’s the...
The following is an excerpt from Just Church: Catholic Social Teaching, Synodality, and Women by Phyllis Zagano (Paulist Press, 2023). It can seem simplistic...
The Mary of my girlhood was modest in every way. She didn’t take up much space or make much noise. Everything about her demeanor proclaimed sexual...
James Joyce is famously quoted as writing: “Catholic means ‘Here comes everybody.’ ” While that may have been the case in Ireland in the 1930s when Finnegans...
Coming up through Catholic schools in New York all her life, Meg Stapleton Smith found herself continually revisiting one question: “What happens to the...
Rising: Learning From Women’s Leadership in Catholic Ministries By Carolyn Y. Woo, Ph.D. (Orbis Books, 2022) “Dr. Woo, do you think women’s leadership in the...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify “As in all the churches of the saints, women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak...
When you hear the word disciple, what do you think of? Probably the 12 apostles, maybe some of the greater crowd following Jesus in the gospels. A few readers...
Corita Kent, through her art and words, gave me two life-giving lessons this year: love the moment, and love the darkness. Cortia Kent, love is hard work...
