Pope Francis opened the new year by highlighting in his homily for the feast of Mary, Mother of God, and his Angelus message the same day, the central role women have played in salvation history and that they still have for bringing peace to the world.
Women in the Church
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: At court and in the convent
Bronwen McShea’s recent book La Duchesse chronicles the life of Marie de Vignerot, the niece, protégé and heiress of Cardinal Richelieu.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
Pope Francis wants to ‘demasculinize’ the church: What does that mean for women—and men?
Gender roles in the church need not be a zero-sum game.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis asks theologians to ‘demasculinize’ the church
Speaking International Theological Commission at the Vatican, Pope Francis told theologians that “One of the great sins we have witnessed is ‘masculinizing’ the church.”
Posted inFaith, Short Take
‘Why do I stay?’ A young Catholic feminist on a church plagued by scandal
The ongoing sexual abuse scandal involving the Rev. Marko Rupnik is another reminder of what the church needs to do to deal with this continuing plague.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Does the synod threaten bishops’ authority?
Catherine Clifford, an ecclesiologist and North American voting member in the Synod on Synodality, joins Colleen Dulle, the host of “Inside the Vatican,” in Rome to discuss the synod’s implications for church structures and hierarchy.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal McElroy: There should never again be a synod without lay people as voting members
“We can’t go backward,” Cardinal Robert McElroy told America’s Vatican correspondent Gerard O‘Connell at the end of the first session of the Synod on Synodality.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Cardinal Cupich on the synod, women deacons, giving bishops job reviews and why ‘LGBTQ’ was left out of the final doc
Exclusive interview: Cardinal Cupich on the end of the first session of the Synod on Synodality.
Posted inFaith, Synod Diary
Synod Diary: Will synod members get to vote on the final document?
What message does it send to women when the first synod to include them as full, voting members opts to forgo an actual vote in favor of approval by applause?
Posted inFaith, Synod Diary
Synod Diary: Synod Mothers make their voices heard in Rome
When asked whether the women in the synod hall felt they were being heard, Sister Pat Murray replied as any tough nun might: “We have been well able to make our point and use our time and space well.”