If necessity is the mother of invention, it’s fair to say that American Catholic school students in the early 20th century were, in a way, the mothers of...
Women in the church
After giving one of the three plenary addresses on the Eucharist at a gathering of the Catholic Theological Society of America in 1997, church historian Gary...
Fifty years after the game-changing Second Vatican Council a new generation helps the church respond to today’s signs of the times. Here, professor Phyllis...
According to Sister Mary Luke Tobin, S.L., Catholic women don’t want to receive an award for best supporting actress if they’re not allowed to help play the...
When the church gets you down, you can always serve the poor. I met Sister Maura on my first night working in an overnight shelter on Chicago’s Southwest Side...
Rethinking John Paul II's theology of the body. On 129 occasions between 1979 and 1984, the late Pope John Paul II shared his reflections on...
I will not be attending church this Sunday, because it’s Mother’s Day, and I choose not to be present at that inevitable moment when all the mothers of the...
Two years ago, we ran a survey asking women religious to respond to the Vatican investigation. While we’ve yet to hear an official response from the...
Mattel and Abercrombie sell sexiness even to 6-year-olds. Enter those who are fighting back to let girls be girls. At a recent wedding Becky Groth was amazed...
The issue of women priests may be a settled matter, but that doesn’t mean a woman can’t serve the church as a deacon. Celebrating the opening of the archives...
