Even though women make up more than half of U.S. Catholics and 80 percent of lay ecclesial ministers, a new report found that Catholic women still struggle to have their contributions recognized.
Women’s Issues
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
I like many of Glennon Doyle’s messages for women. But some of her ideas about family are problematic.
For Catholics, the basic unit of society is the family and our local church, not the individual.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Daniel Craig has brilliantly reinvented James Bond. But he can’t save the franchise from irrelevance.
The ‘Bond’ franchise has finally rid itself of a decades-long pattern of misogyny and sexism. Unfortunately, the movies are also showing signs of losing relevance.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We need to stop using the word ‘prostitute’
The word “prostitute” labels a woman with a false identity, one that fails to take into account life circumstances and instead relies on a twisted definition of “choice.”
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
It’s been 50 years since most Jesuit colleges went co-ed. But have they truly embraced their female students?
Taking women seriously as students, staff and faculty means that the Jesuit institution considers them as essential to its mission.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Catholics need better conversations about women’s sexual health. Here are 3 places to start.
Better sexual education can help uphold the dignity of women’s embodied existence and diminish damaging stigmas.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
We cannot separate the question of women’s ordination from the church’s history of sexism
While at the surface the question about women’s ordination has been asked and answered, rarely has it been asked in this new context where women’s full human dignity is unreservedly affirmed and defended.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Women in the College of Cardinals: A modest proposal for a more equal (and prophetic) church
More pressing than the question of whether women can be ordained to the priesthood is the reality that clericalism and sexism have created and sustained a system in which women are treated as second-class citizens.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
America’s child care crisis and Catholic social teaching
Human beings matter to our common life regardless of whether they are seen as independent and productive members of society.
Posted inFaith, Features
Women are rising to new heights at the Vatican. Could they change the church forever?
There is a long way to go before women’s voices are satisfactorily integrated into the central leadership of the church.