The theme of solidarity runs throughout Roy Bourgeois’ new autobiographical book Male Supremacy in the Catholic Church – An Insider’s View. The short memoir is about “confronting ignorance—my own, that of my country, and that of my church.”For many NWNC readers, Bourgeois’ story is familiar. A longtime friend of WOC, many will have read an…
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(Editor’s note: Casey Murano, our guest blogger, is a caretaker at Bethlehem Farm in West Virginia, and an artist. She writes, “At its essence, I approach art-making as a practice of transformation. My process draws on the wisdom of contemplative traditions and themes of pilgrimage–broadly, a journey through a landscape of some kind that prompts…
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“Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression,” was written by bell hooks in her book called Feminism is For Everybody. She elaborates on the question regarding the definition of feminism. “What is feminism?” has been a question that many have answered, yet many answer from their own perspective. Feminism takes into…
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What a pleasure it is to be at this Table, WOC’s online community. Last week on this blog, Jane Malhotra shared about her experience during a September pilgrimage to Our Lady of Guadalupe with Discerning Deacons. This week, I’ll share some of my experience of the same pilgrimage, and next week the two of us…
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It is around this time every year that this question comes, usually from a female or queer student. Some days it is easier to answer that question than others, but the day this question comes is my favorite day. It means that I get to lay the groundwork to tell my students about all of…
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What a joy to spend the first week of September in beautiful, vibrant, complicated, art-infused Mexico City as part of a pilgrimage with the two-years-young organization Discerning Deacons, to celebrate the Feast of Deacon St. Phoebe at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. There were 60 of us from North and South America, primarily…
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[Editors’ note: the following is excerpted from “WILDFlower: Untaming St. Thérèse of Lisieux,” a retreat WOC offered to members in October 2021, and facilitated by Nancy Corran and Jocelyn Sideco. The following text draws from many sources, linked below.] “Jesus set before me the book of nature. I understand how all the flowers God had…
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“What difference would it make?” Professor Emerita Ross S. Kraemer asked this question both before and after presenting her analysis of women’s authorship in Jewish and Christian literature in the Greco-Roman period (ca 400 BCE to 400 CE) on September 20 as part of FutureChurch’s Women Erased series. Since hard evidence supporting women’s authorship is…
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Maybe you’ve seen this already, but read it again: There was a desire for stronger leadership, discernment, and decision-making roles for women – both lay and religious – in their parishes and communities: “people mentioned a variety of ways in which women could exercise leadership, including preaching and ordination as deacon or priest. Ordination for…
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You know how you’re not supposed to discuss religion, politics, or sex if you want to have a peace-filled and conflict-free gathering among friends? Well, the other day, a group of us were talking about a book we had all read about modern Irish history which included as a predominant topic the collapse of the…
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