Category: Feminism

Sometimes I am at a loss about what to write. Either I’m at that emptied out phase or too full to even process everything storming at us and through us. So many others I’ve talked with seem to feel the same. What is there to say? About our world?  About our lives?  Even about women’s…
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In these trying days, I thought I’d start with the “humiliation” (at my own expense) part to give us a few laughs and something to muse on not related to current viral or political happenings. Then I’ll add the more serious bits. Below is a picture of me – on the right – about to…
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Last week I turned in my MDiv thesis, the culmination of three years of graduate work at Union Theological Seminary. This obviously happened under strange and unforeseen circumstances. I have been living with my parents in Vermont rather than in my Manhattan dorm, for one, and my cats have been unexpected writing partners over the…
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“Everything comes from love. All is ordained for the salvation of [humankind]. God does nothing without this goal in mind.” St. Catherine of Siena A thousand years or so, and half the width of Europe, separate Catherine of Siena from Brigid of Kildare, but I’m thinking a lot about both these women during these quiet,…
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Here we are, Regina and Ellie, two of your Catholic Feminists, Women’s Ordination champions, faithful WOC bloggers. What on earth – or heaven? – happened? In order to enter a mosque in Jordan for a tour and talk on Islam (part of our Israel/Jordan trip experience), the men in our group had to remove their…
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As it has been for many, being in the coronavirus lockdown has meant that time has started to go a little wonky for me. I didn’t realize until this Saturday (four days into April) that it was April. This cognizance brought me to the reeling conclusion that the upcoming week was going to be Holy…
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I’ve been taking some of the pertinent highlights of our trip to Israel and Jordan and trying to discern how they relate to understandings of women in the Church and, more importantly, how those perceptions of women may have changed. (She says hopefully!) The Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth may have some hope filled…
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Hace un año exactamente tuve la oportunidad de darle vida al proyecto de Women’s Ordination Conference, Escuchando a las Mujeres (EALM); una iniciativa que buscaba recopilar las experiencias de las Latinas dentro de la iglesia católicas en los EE. UU. Cuando vi la vacante, pensé que era la respuesta a la pregunta que tantas veces…
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As I mentioned before, my WOC companion and sister writer for The Table, Regina Bannan, and I went on a Road Scholar trip to Israel and Jordan this February. The goal of the tour was to help us understand what is involved – culturally, historically, artistically, spiritually – in a land where three dynamic cultures…
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Picking up on Regina Bannan’s (my cherished companion on the trip to Israel and Jordan a week and a half ago) Table post for March 14, I would like to add my brief reflection and observation about our experience by the Western or Wailing Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem. (I did miss the rabbis…
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