Category: Guest Post

[Editor’s note: Sara Conneely is joining “The Table” as a Tuesday guest blogger for the month of January.] When I discovered that the Women’s Ordination Conference exists, I was delighted that a space I had been hoping for was real and active. I am a Catholic minister with a background in catechetics and education. I…
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Beginning on Saturday, October 6th, 1979, on the eve of the last day of Pope John Paul II’s visit to the United States, members of the Women’s Ordination Conference held an all-night vigil in Washington, D.C. They were there to greet the pope as he arrived to conduct Mass at the National Shrine of the…
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Coming into this position of being an intern for the Women’s Ordination Conference and taking part in being a blog editor, I was excited yet nervous. I will admit that my knowledge of certain topics in Catholic news was hazy. This sparked the nervousness I felt in the beginning. However, that soon changed. The more…
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In the Roman Catholic Church, feminist theologian and scholar, Rosemary Radford Ruether, was a prophetic pillar. She shares the same status as the early church Fathers—Origen, John Chrysostom, Gregory of Nazianzus, John Cassian, and St. Augustine; Women Doctors of the Church—St. Hildegard von Bingen, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Ávila, and St. Thérèse de Lisieux; and well-known…
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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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Like their pagan mothers and grandmothers, the women of early Christian Ireland lived comfortably with power. It wasn’t a feminist paradise—their society was ruled, after all, by aristocratic warriors—but women who became Christians were still influential in the new religion. Brigid of Kildare is one of the best examples. Today is her feast day. Patrick…
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Much of what we do in our circles of progressive Catholicism today draws directly on the work of those who acted for change in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. One of these key post-Vatican II leaders is the Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutiérrez, OP (1928-), whose foundational text, Teología de la liberación, perspectivas (1971),…
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I have attended Catholics schools for the entirety of my life, from preschool through college, where I am now. My experience has always been what I would describe as pleasant, and I am grateful for the moral foundations I received, and particularly the lifelong friendships I was able to cultivate. Some of my favorite memories…
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[Editors’ note: Anne Tropeano is a 2020 awardee of the Lucile Murray Durkin Scholarship. This is the second of three in a series of reflections from our 2020 awardees on how the scholarship impacted their journey over the academic year. WOC will also be hosting a “Meet Fr. Anne” Zoom event on Thursday, September 2,…
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