While Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s attendance attracted predictable outrage from her regular critics, she made the exact splash it seems she intended to make.
Women’s Issues
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Pope Francis wants a better future for Slovakia’s Roma communities. Roma women are making it happen.
Women in Roma settlements across Slovakia are gaining agency and bringing about a better future for the next generation.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
A challenge to Planned Parenthood in Texas: Don’t shut down. Support women with life-affirming prenatal care.
If Planned Parenthood does not trust crisis pregnancy centers, the abortion Goliath should beat the centers at their own game.
Posted inFaith in Focus, Politics & Society
Pro-life Catholics: You can’t end abortion without taking on the patriarchy.
Until all structures of sexism are transformed and the patriarchal mores in our hearts and relationships are converted, there will always be unwanted pregnancies.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Is Britney Spears a Catholic? The internet has thoughts
Could the singer responsible for making Catholic schoolgirl uniforms a Halloween costume-party staple now herself be Catholic?
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Meghan Markle and Melissa McCarthy, let Catholics help you with your mentoring initiative
Forty minutes of mentoring is only a start, but Meghan Markle and Melissa McCarthy’s initiative for women is a well-timed opportunity to show compassion.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Moral Economy
Pope Francis agrees: Equal pay for women is long (long) overdue
For modern interpreters of Catholic social teaching, there is little question that women deserve equal pay. It has not always been so.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholics must work to build a society that actually supports families
A more welcoming society for babies, children and families must work on many levels. Catholics should be leading that charge.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Discovering God as Mother
Praying to God as a mother deepened my understanding of the divine.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How the women of the Bible helped me reimagine my barrenness
Discovering that a pivotal figure like Esther, who saves her people from death, also happens to be childless, can help us understand that childlessness in Scripture cannot be understood only as a curse.