Today, 16 of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the A.J.C.U. are led by lay presidents, three of whom are women. Their perspectives as lay women professionals in leadership has brought needed skills to their institutions and created opportunities to clarify their institutions’ Jesuit mission and identity.
Women in the Church
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What not to do during Mother’s Day Mass
Mother’s Day is already difficult for women who long to be moms or have lost children in miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of a child after birth. And these women do not make up a small percentage of the women in the pews.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
What, if anything, does the commission on women deacons agree on?
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Gerry and I talk about three stories from Pope Francis’ trip to Bulgaria and North Macedonia.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis says commission on women deacons did not reach agreement
Pope Francis said, “There were deaconesses at the beginning [of the church], but [the question is] was theirs a sacramental ordination or not?”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Rape charges against a Catholic bishop in India are a victory for nuns pressured to stay silent
Bishop Franco Mulakkal, a native of Kerala, an enclave of Christians in predominantly Hindu India, is accused of attacking the nun nine times between 2014 and 2016.
Posted inFaith, Features
With a church in crisis, why do Catholic women stay?
In many corners of the church, women are not treated with equal dignity and worth. Too often, the structures of the Catholic Church show little openness to meaningful transformation. But our church’s lack of insight, and the breakdown of our own self-monitoring systems, are curable.
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
Why as Christians we need to read widely—and deeply
Oftentimes we find that the people on the other side of a hot-button issue are motivated by good reasoning and deeply held values. They are not the enemy.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Inside Lucetta Scaraffia’s resignation and Pope Francis’ election
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” we look at why the staff of Women Church World resigned, and we give you a sneak peek into Gerry’s new book on the election of Pope Francis.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
Are women’s voices being silenced at the Vatican?
Ms. Scaraffia described the spaces women have carved out for themselves to speak freely as “a hidden schism in the church, where the religious are separating themselves from the church.”
Posted inFaith, Video
Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ | Faith in Focus
Feminist theologian Elizabeth Johnson joins Fr. James Martin, SJ, on Faith in Focus for a conversation on how the feminine qualities of God can enrich our church and our prayer lives.