Category: catholic news

I have no business addressing this topic. I can’t even communicate with Jamie Manson to congratulate her on her new job because I’m not on the social media she suggests. That she’s so modern does make me feel that she’ll continue doing a great job speaking to and for Catholic women everywhere. Articles in print…
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Having met Tony Flannery, the Irish Redemptorist priest, in 2014 when he toured the United States, I mourn for his current situation. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has asked him to assent to four statements, and he has declined. NCR and other outlets broke the news on September 15, and later…
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As much as I love a moral dilemma, I also love a challenge, especially one in which I gain new perspectives and grow in understanding. I refer my post last week titled “A Moral Dilemma,” which engendered more commentary and response than I expected! One especially challenged me to examine how surface our thinking can…
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First of all, “the Vote.” Who votes, how, when, where is getting unprecedented attention, in my opinion as a member of the League of Women Voters since 1968. Good. May the total electorate increase. Second, apologies to international readers. We are obsessed. Maybe you are at least interested. This week the BBC News Hour had…
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Breakfast reading brought inspiration through fabulous writing by Patricia Williams in The Nation. In “The Color of Contagion” she ties diverse topics like medical education and the history of discrimination to the coronavirus and its disparate impact on minorities in the United States. A sample: “Americans are not raised to believe in the entanglements of…
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Half empty or half full, as the old cliché goes. Is it possible for you to keep up your enthusiasm, or do you despair that women will be ordained in the Roman Catholic Church in your lifetime? Several long articles examining this very question have appeared in the last couple of weeks. FutureChurch’s Deborah Rose-Milavec…
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Was this an apology? America threw up online a 2009 article about the errors it had published in its 100 year history. Among them, opposing suffrage in September 1920. James T. Keane, summarizes: “the editors fretted about the damage universal suffrage might do to so delicate a creature as woman.” He quotes, “‘Is the contest…
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Maybe Christine Schenk, CSJ, had the same problem I had this week. There is so much going on, from the Conventions to the Centenary, that I need a nice, quiet topic. What have I missed in this summer of news breaking all the time? Parishes. Specifically, the July 20 papal Instruction on parishes. It’s especially…
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Just read in today WSJ that Pope Francis named six women to Vatican Economic Council.  The quote that struck me ..in the article..is women should be given roles that ..”do not entail holy orders” but allow them to serve  “in a way that reflects their womanhood” So doing budgets ..balance sheets…reflects womanhood..interesting now as there…
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Can you imagine a murder mystery in which the Women’s Ordination Conference has a major role in the plot? Marjorie Jones did! In the Convent: A Frances Yeats Mystery is set in Mexico City, in and around the very convent where Sor Juana de la Cruz lived in the 17th century. These nuns are definitely…
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