In this deep dive episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle examines how things are changing for women in the Vatican.
Women in the Church
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Catholic women feel called to be deacons. The church should listen to their stories.
How would opening the diaconate to women embolden the church for the Gospel mission given to all of the baptized: to proclaim good news to the poor and justice for the oppressed?
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Meet a Catholic woman who feels called to be a deacon
The debate about whether the Catholic Church should ordain women to the diaconate often focuses on theological and historical arguments. Rarely, though, do we hear from women who themselves feel called to this ministry.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
It’s been 50 years since most Jesuit colleges went co-ed. But have they truly embraced their female students?
Taking women seriously as students, staff and faculty means that the Jesuit institution considers them as essential to its mission.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Maryknoll Sisters celebrate 100 years of ministry in China
It was 100 years ago—on Sept. 12, 1921—when the Maryknoll Sisters assigned its first group of sisters to China, the order’s first mission.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
‘I am very grateful I taught girls’: teaching theology at a Jesuit school for young women
A graduate of Regis Jesuit High School in Denver interviews her former theology teacher on her experiences in and out of the classroom.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Catholics need better conversations about women’s sexual health. Here are 3 places to start.
Better sexual education can help uphold the dignity of women’s embodied existence and diminish damaging stigmas.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
We cannot separate the question of women’s ordination from the church’s history of sexism
While at the surface the question about women’s ordination has been asked and answered, rarely has it been asked in this new context where women’s full human dignity is unreservedly affirmed and defended.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Women in the College of Cardinals: A modest proposal for a more equal (and prophetic) church
More pressing than the question of whether women can be ordained to the priesthood is the reality that clericalism and sexism have created and sustained a system in which women are treated as second-class citizens.
Posted inFaith, Features
Women are rising to new heights at the Vatican. Could they change the church forever?
There is a long way to go before women’s voices are satisfactorily integrated into the central leadership of the church.