Category: Feminism

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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The morning after Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, I found myself reading a book review by Rich Yesselson in The Nation. Loomis is one of a number of contemporary scholars and thinkers whom I would call “pessimistic militants”—embodiments of the Gramscian cliché about pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. The pessimistic militants study…
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I am always fascinated by “moral dilemmas”, and so, as you can imagine, I am in a state of constant fascination these days since there are so many demanding our attention out there in our world. The good news is I feel rather equipped to deal with them, as maybe you do, because I’ve had…
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He could have been speaking about us, Irish author, Niall Williams, poetically capturing our ancient and current plight. No matter what we do or say, we women and other marginalized people are unable to “escape the feeling that folded against (our) back” are “wings that have failed to open.” Oh, it is not that we,…
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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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There was no way I could not weave women’s suffrage into this narrative today, for tomorrow, August 26, 2020, is the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. What a journey they undertook, what a victory they earned. And what a reminder that to truly realize equality, we…
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Never mind our personal politics, we in the Women’s Ordination Conference have to be jubilant: A Black and Indian-American woman is on the ticket for the highest office in our land! Catholic Church hierarchy: Take heed. Equality and inclusion are coming your way – fast. Your medieval misogynistic mindset is on notice, and you cannot…
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I could be facetious and call this event “Biking for God” but that would be an all-encompassing, community building, good thing. Instead, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia called it “Biking for Vocations” and, needless to say, they were not biking for you, ladies – or any gender other than male. From August 5 through August 9,…
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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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“We are compelled to be transgressive.” Seven more women in France have come forward to join Anne Soupa and apply for positions denied to them. However, La Croix International devotes more space to arguments for not challenging ordination to priesthood or diaconate, but working within the church. What is transgressive? It’s a narrative that begins with…
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