Category: Ministry of Walking with Women Called

We have just celebrated the feast of the Annunciation. A submissive Mary or a courageous Mary – depending on your take on the story or perhaps on women, themselves – has just said either: “Let it be done unto me” or “Yes”. Most of us, I hope, prefer the latter. In any case, Mary did…
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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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[Editors’ note: Claire Hitchins is a 2020 awardee of the Lucile Murray Durkin Scholarship. This is the first of three in a series of reflections from our 2020 awardees on how the scholarship impacted their journey over the academic year.]  “My soul magnifies the Lord!” So begins Mary of Nazareth’s revolutionary song of praise, prompted…
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[Editors’ note: Kori Pacyniak is a 2019 awardee of the Lucile Murray Durkin Scholarship for women and non-binary persons discerning priestly ordination. This is the third and final in a series of reflections from our 2019 awardees on how the scholarship impacted their journey over the academic year. Read the first reflection from Molly Minerath here,…
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[Editors’ note: Kate Fontana is a 2019 awardee of the Lucile Murray Durkin Scholarship for women and non-binary persons discerning priestly ordination. This is the second in a series of reflections from our 2019 awardees on how the scholarship impacted their journey over the academic year. Read the first reflection here.] Feeling into this last…
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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’ve been taking some of the pertinent highlights of our trip to Israel and Jordan and trying to discern how they relate to understandings of women in the Church and, more importantly, how those perceptions of women may have changed. (She says hopefully!) The Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth may have some hope filled…
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Hace un año exactamente tuve la oportunidad de darle vida al proyecto de Women’s Ordination Conference, Escuchando a las Mujeres (EALM); una iniciativa que buscaba recopilar las experiencias de las Latinas dentro de la iglesia católicas en los EE. UU. Cuando vi la vacante, pensé que era la respuesta a la pregunta que tantas veces…
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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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I came across two approaches to managing and/or healing rifts. One focused on personal and the other on political, but I thought both had something pertinent to say about how we might – or in the one case might not – approach and/or heal our own difficulties with gender issues within Catholic leadership and ministry.…
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