Category: #achurchforourdaughters

Here I am again – perhaps you are, too – going this way and that about the Church, about women and all genders and the Church, about…well, you know the drill. I hear the stories all the time about people, especially the young people we so desperately need, finding “church” elsewhere. This is particularly true…
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This weekend I was searching through articles and websites for material for an ongoing feature on women I suggested for our church bulletin during Women’s History Month this March. (Funny thing about suggesting: you suddenly become the “volunteer” to put it all together! I really didn’t mind though because I had wanted this kind of…
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How rich the Church would be if only the blessed gifts outlined by poet, Jan Richardson below – and so many, many more that you could name – from all genders – were permitted. I’m not telling you here anything you don’t already know, but sometimes, I think, in this week of the celebration of…
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Recently, on a visit to Texas, I attended a traditional Catholic Church. It was large and unpretentiously beautiful. The congregation was extremely diverse: young, old, singles, couples, and lots of families of Asian, Hispanic, African-American as well as European-American origin. People were welcoming and seemed happy to be there. The Mass itself was conservative, with…
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“It’s not about passing the torch.  It’s about firing up another’s torch so there can be more light for all.” I’m quoting one of the mentors in Call to Action’s 20/30 Project paraphrasing part of a speech by Gloria Steinem to explain why this particular mentor chose to become a guide, champion, and support for…
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Recently, I have been so overwhelmed by the revelations about our church, I decided to focus on what kind of church I – and maybe you – might really want. Like many of you, however, I am just a layperson, and I know there are many who have more studied and wise ideas on the…
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I think you are going to love this. One of our members presented it at our annual Southeast Pennsylvania chapter of WOC full day retreat last week. It is a quote from the book, Holy Rascals, by Rabbi Rami Shapiro. (The book’s title alone enthralls me as does being able to quote such a wise…
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I love the designated theme of this year’s Mary Magdalene Feast: “Celebrating Feminism & Faith in Union”. With this focus, how proudly we can join with other Catholic renewal groups in affirming the national and international Women’s Marches, #MeToo and #CatholicToo, all brave advocates for justice and rights of women, and those who participated in…
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I cannot leave this holiday, our “Independence Day,” without comment. I write as thousands on June 30 are rallying for immigrants coming to this, my country, fleeing oppression, violence, violation, and extreme, poverty to be granted asylum, and for their families detained in this, my country, to be reunited immediately. I had intended to go…
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When I started this blog, I wrote a lot about the Bishops. I am about to do so today, and I want to explain myself. “This is what democracy looks like,” that chant at many demonstrations, echoes in my mind. We are in a power struggle to ordain women. I never object when people say,…
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