Author: Matthew Casey-Pariseault

[This post was co-written by Matthew Casey-Pariseault and Bernadette Raspante. Incidentally, no artificial intelligence technology was used in the creation of this post.] Father Tavárez sits staring into the bluish glow of his Macbook Pro. It is half-past midnight and the fact that it is now technically Sunday, April 30 adds to the pressure building…
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Beginning on Saturday, October 6th, 1979, on the eve of the last day of Pope John Paul II’s visit to the United States, members of the Women’s Ordination Conference held an all-night vigil in Washington, D.C. They were there to greet the pope as he arrived to conduct Mass at the National Shrine of the…
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Two Vatican documents from the past half-century form the basis for the Church’s official stance on women’s ordination today. The first, a declaration from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Inter Insigniores, was issued in 1976 with the approval of Pope Paul VI. The latter of the two documents is Pope John…
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Much of what we do in our circles of progressive Catholicism today draws directly on the work of those who acted for change in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. One of these key post-Vatican II leaders is the Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutiérrez, OP (1928-), whose foundational text, Teología de la liberación, perspectivas (1971),…
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