[Editors’ note: In this time when the need for connection is greater than ever, we are increasing the frequency of our blog posts to three times a week.] Sometimes a victory is measured in something as small as two words. After obtaining our official status as a recognized Non Governmental Organization (NGO) in the United…
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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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You may have realized that we were away for a few weeks. I am very grateful to the writers who contributed to this blog and encourage them and others to share their thoughts more frequently. Ellie and I love writing – but we are not the only voices that should be heard. We were on…
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The following book review originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of New Women, New Church. Forty years ago, Theresa Kane stood up in the Basilica Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, to greet Pope John Paul II on behalf of the sisters of the United States and spoke the truth in love,…
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Marguerite Porete, 14th-century heretic and author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, lived a rather enigmatic life. Little is known about her except that she wrote a work that is dizzying in its refusal to abide by dualistic ways of knowing and that she was burned at the stake for it. She refused to speak…
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A couple of weeks ago, after Sunday liturgy, I attended a panel consisting of young women about their experiences, their needs and their hopes for the future of the church. These women ranged in age from early twenties to mid-forties. The one idea that has stuck with me is one woman’s call for Holy Impatience.…
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Remember the very first episode of Friends? It’s the origin story of Rachel, who storms out of her near-miss wedding and into a random Manhattan coffeeshop where Monica, Phoebe, Ross, Joey, and Chandler welcome this stranger who’s having second thoughts about getting married. It’s the beginning of a beautiful friendship that goes on for ten…
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It was a random Sunday in Ordinary Time and I made my way up to the ambo for the liturgy of the Word. “Sisters and brothers,” I read from Paul’s letter to the Colossians, “put on, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and…
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The recent papal letter “Querida Amazonia” has left many of us puzzled, disappointed and frustrated in varying degrees as we try to understand what this response – or lack of response – means in both the short and long term. Much has already been written about this and I don’t want to belabor the issue: …
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I was so struck by the diversity and energy and possibilities all genders could bring to our staid old Church when I read the poem – believe it or not – titled “Elvis Week” in the February 17 & 24 New Yorker that I had to pass it on. Substitute “God” for “Elvis” and the…
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