If the church approaches women’s discernment with condescension instead of curiosity, it risks undermining the process of synodality.
Mary McAuliffe
Mary McAuliffe is a religion teacher in Washington D.C., as well as a student at the Clough School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College. She has previously served as an Augustinian Volunteer, a teaching fellow at the Alliance for Catholic Education at Saint Joseph’s University and a teacher at Xavier High School Micronesia in Chuuk, Micronesia.
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Women and LGBTQ Catholics are paying the price for church unity
If we are to be a synodal church, are all of us ready to hear and honestly reckon with the sacrifice being asked of women and L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics?
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Seeing God’s presence at a high school in Micronesia
The accusations of paganism and idolatry at the Synod on the Amazon sent a troubling message about the universality of the church, writes Mary McAuliffe, a teacher at a Jesuit school in the Pacific.
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Even at Catholic high schools, college is not for everyone
Catholic high schools should not be limited to the college-bound. In order to serve all communities, they must also serve students who wish to avoid college debt and to go straight into the workforce.