The misogynistic language of the old Constitution may be removed, but in its place will be clauses that relinquish the state of any real responsibility to support family caregivers, critics say.
Women’s Issues
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
A Catholic defense of ‘Barbie’ and Greta Gerwig’s feminism
Greta Gerwig’s art reveals the truth that there is dignity in simply being a woman—an embodied, relational, imperfect woman.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘The Woman in the Wall’ is worth the watch—if only for the Irish history lesson
Lorna Brady has been traumatized by her time in a Magdalene Laundry in Ireland. But when she receives a mysterious note regarding the whereabouts of her missing daughter, she pushes past her trauma to reveal the truth.
Posted inArts & Culture, Podcasts
‘This is what women go through’: An Account of Women’s Pain in ‘The Retrievals’
“The Retrievals” is a story about women’s pain and the stories we tell about it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ have more in common than memes. They’re both about forgiveness.
Neither Barbie nor Oppenheimer directly apologizes or asks for forgiveness, and neither can truly dismantle the damage they have done.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
A Catholic culture of life must recognize miscarriage and pregnancy loss
Church teachings on life beginning at conception and human dignity overall require us to have a more sensitive approach to miscarriages and other forms of pregnancy loss.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
What Dorothy Day had to say about Dolores Huerta and the struggle for worker justice
A worker’s advocate, feminist leader and civil rights proponent whose work continues today at the age of 93, Dolores Huerta was an under-recognized leader.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Report from Honduras: Protest over suspected murder stops traffic in femicide capital of Latin America
The protest was organized by women’s advocates and the family, friends and neighbors of Ana Lizeth Hernández, a 33-year-old woman who died of a gunshot wound to the head in her home on March 19.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Women Talking’ is the Oscar nominee every Catholic needs to see
“Women Talking” is an exploration of the way that religion can be used to imprison people—and what’s worse, to teach them to imprison themselves.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Rihanna’s Super Bowl performance put the power of pregnancy center stage
The singer’s halftime performance illuminated some of the tensions experienced by pregnant women in the public eye.