The U.S. bishops were scheduled to concelebrate Mass at St. Peter Claver Church, the largest African-American Catholic congregation in Baltimore, on Nov. 14, the first day of their fall general assembly. • In advance of Black Catholic History Month in November, a delegation of black Catholic pr
Women in the Church
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Deacons, Women and the Call to Serve: a special video event
A special web round-table discussion sponsored by America Media and the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture.
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Women priests or not, gendered theology is hurting the church
Rigid complementarity cheats both men and women of their full humanity.
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Explainer: Why Pope Francis’ comments on women’s ordination are both business as usual and a big deal
Why Pope Francis’ comments are both business as usual and something worth talking about.
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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.
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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.
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Catholic women call for expanded notion of “family values.”
The statement was signed by more than 70 women active in various Catholic ministries.
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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.”