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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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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[Editors’ note: Molly Minnerath is a 2019 awardee of the Lucile Murray Durkin Scholarship for women and non-binary persons discerning priestly ordination. This is the first in a series of reflections from our 2019 awardees on how the scholarship impacted their journey over the academic year.] This year my spiritual director introduced me to the…
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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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This June, only five us stood outside our city’s cathedral to hold up our “Ordain Women” signs as men only were being ordained inside. So few were able to attend the witness this year, we almost did not come at all fearing we would look weak or pathetic with such low numbers. But it was…
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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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I don’t envy the members of the Church hierarchy and all who follow their mandates. I don’t envy them when, with consciences afire, biases lit up, monstrous ignorance in flames and dangerous and destructive misogyny ablaze, they finally have to reckon with their treatment of, and discrimination against, women and all genders and all races…
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Women’s Rights Are Human Rights. Black Lives Matter. Believe Science. No Justice, No Peace. God Bless America. No more war, war never again. Symbols, too: the Rainbow, the Shamrock. Questions: Is it good for the Jews? Answers: This is what democracy looks like. I am thinking about gut reactions, that instinctive response based on deep…
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How, for all these years, could I not have noticed the last sentence of the Gospel of Matthew 14:13-21?  This Gospel relates the famous story of Jesus’ feeding multitudes of people from only a few loaves of bread and some fish. It is one of the most moving and inspirational of Jesus’ “miracles” assuring us,…
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