Why Pope Francis’ comments are both business as usual and something worth talking about.
Women in the Church
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Unprecedented Preaching
One of the more intriguing questions Pope Francis prompted earlier this year when he announced that a Vatican commission would study whether the early church had women deacons was: How would Catholics react to women preaching?
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Women are living in a new historical era. How will the church respond?
Mary is known most as “mother,” while many women today are single longer or single mothers.
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How student loans almost cost this nun her vocation
Apart from restricting life choices among young Catholics, debt also creates new relationship structures within their families based on guilt and co-dependence rather than on love.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Want to see Catholic women preach? Soon you’ll be able to.
A new website called Catholic Women Preach will publish videos of women breaking open Scripture.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic women call for expanded notion of “family values.”
The statement was signed by more than 70 women active in various Catholic ministries.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
What does it mean to be a Catholic mother today?
Jennifer Fulwiler is a lay Catholic writer, speaker and host of a daily radio show on SiriusXM’s “The Catholic Channel.”
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¿Cómo podrían las mujeres diáconos enriquecer la Iglesia?
¿Si la iglesia discierne que disfruta de la libertad de admitir a las mujeres al diaconado, deberíamos hacerlo?
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Seeking peace on the other side of fear: author Q&A with Hallie Lord
Recognizing that life is hard and being at peace are not mutually exclusive.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton react to Mother Teresa’s canonization
Trump praised the saint’s “amazing life of charity and holiness” and Clinton recalled her work with the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.