Category: Preaching Equality

Congress can’t seem to pass a stimulus package or keep the president from hosting COVID parties. But here’s what I wish they would do: Ban the use of the phrase “In these difficult times.” You want to know difficult times? About five hundred years ago, a microscopic bacteria called y. pestis hitched a ride on…
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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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“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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This Sunday the Community of Mary Magdalene in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania will celebrate (via Zoom) the gifts of this amazing benefactor/saint to our lives with a mass with readings from the lost apocryphal text, Gospel of Mary. At the end of Mass, we will have the pleasure of honoring Dr. Shannen Dee Williams with the…
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I am trying to do the “homework on white privilege” that so many African-American leaders, writers, clergy, activists, citizens are advocating. I had done some of the work before as part of our parish’s racial healing initiative which had us reading the literature, meeting weekly in small racial healing groups, and trying to learn, grow,…
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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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The day after I wrote my blog on spiritual communion last week, the Pope addressed it. I don’t claim there was a causal relationship, but it’s clearly an issue that deserves examining again. I also appreciate the comments I received on and off-line, especially those of my sister, who spelled out the way the Archdiocese…
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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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Those of us around this TABLE are united in our belief that women should be ordained priests in the Roman Catholic Church. We probably have many different ideas about what that actually means, how and when that should happen, whether it already has happened. I started thinking about fundamental issues when I heard the Rector…
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In this first Tuesday after Easter, we still have that haunting question: who rolled away the stone? And why is it important to seek the answer? The poet poses the question below and reflects on it in verse. I add a thought at the end. Easter What I want to know is simply this:Who rolled…
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