Just weeks after the visitation of American women religious congregations was announced, the Leadership Conference of Women’s Religious (LCWR) learned...
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.
Religious congregations are not franchises of the Vatican “central office.” More like families than corporations, sisters have different missions...
U.S. women religious deserve better than the nunsense of a Vatican investigation. It must be hard being a Sister in America. You spend a century creating a...
Veronica Mumbi Ndiritu is the principal at Nkaimurunya Kindergarten. She is 26, unmarried, and successful by any standards. She gave up a higher salary...
Catholics must focus on the battle for hearts and minds to be successful in the effort to end abortion. The United States will make history this month...
Catholics ought to be loud and proud in the fight for women’s rights, argues a young feminist. I still remember the first time I heard a friend utter the...
What do non-evangelicals think of evangelical dating culture? My students were shocked when they read evangelical books on dating. The idea that you would know...
As a feminist, how do you react to sexualized theme parties? I found out about theme parties when I was teaching a course on women and spirituality. We were...
Sister Catherine Bertrand, S.S.N.D. entered religious life on a dare. "It was either that or the Peace Corps." After 25 years she continues to be...
Thenaming in 1997 of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux as a "Doctor of the church" by Pope John Paul II caused Catholics around the...
