This week, we talk with Matias Benitez and Matt Chen, the founders of HeForShe, a feminist club at Regis High School.
Women’s Issues
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
One-third of U.S. bishops believe church ‘should’ ordain women as deacons
According to a report released by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University on Jan. 22, just 33 percent of bishops in the United States think the church “should” ordain women as deacons.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Two years in, Trump still fuels Women’s March rallies
In cities across the country, local activists marched in support of a progressive agenda centered on economic justice, racial justice and immigrant rights.
Posted inFaith, News
Hysterectomy can be morally licit in limited situations, Vatican says
The church teaches that sterilization is morally unacceptable, but a hysterectomy could be if the uterus could not sustain a pregnancy, according to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Ireland agrees to reassess claims of workers in Magdalene laundries
Women who worked in Ireland’s “Magdalene laundries” but were denied compensation under the state’s Magdalene Restorative Justice program have won their long-running battle to have their applications reassessed.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Confronting femicide in Brazil
Ms. Morais’s death is a notorious example of an everyday horror in Brazil and other Latin American states: the crime of femicide. In 2017 at least 2,795 women were victims of femicide in 23 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Posted inFaith
Is there a ‘civil war’ in the Catholic Church?
America This Week Our October 24 guest is Joe Hoover, S.J. We talk to him about his article No, there is not a “civil war” in the Catholic Church. We also discuss these stories: Exclusive: Should U.S. bishops speak out on politics—or stick to religion? What it means to be a Catholic feminist and why […]
Posted inFaith, Last Take
What it means to be a Catholic feminist and why the church must embrace it
Feminism is both necessary for being a Catholic woman and one of the reasons you will be tested as a Catholic feminist.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
“Little Women”: What Louisa May Alcott’s classic can teach us about female empowerment
The various arguments around Little Women have long boiled down to: does the novel empower women, or does it oppress them?
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Five questions (and answers) about Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination
The president is free to nominate to the Supreme Court whomever he or she thinks is best, but there should be some character and fitness requirements to maintain respect for our government.