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...
Women in the church
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...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify The Catholic Church is the largest Christian denomination in the world. And it has almost no women in leadership roles...
As the oldest child in a large, conservative Catholic family, I was raised to believe that my purpose as a woman was to become a wife and mother. Caring for my...
On March 19 Pope Francis issued a new apostolic constitution for the Roman Curia, the offices that help him govern the Catholic Church. Praedicate Evangelium...
