Category: Escuchando a las Mujeres

The week before Christmas I visited the Yucatan town of Merida, Mexico, and its surroundings. Inspired, I include here now, mostly in pictures, my dream for a new Church for a new year. This is the cathedral in the main plaza in Merida regaled in Christmas light. Flowers, leaves, tendrils of growth, both dazzling and…
Read more

[Editor’s Note: This post was translated from the original Spanish by our Escuchando a las Mujeres team, Lilian and Lorena. You can read it in Spanish here.] April was Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) and we hosted the second event of our series Connecting Experiences of Faith and Feminism. This time our subject was Facing Sexual…
Read more

A couple of months ago, I learned of an educational program hosted by the Catholic Leaders Latin-American Academy on the International Social Doctrine of the Church called Feminism, Gender and Catholic Identity. The theme stemmed from an invitation from Pope Francis to present a proposal for a new Christian Feminism to analyze the philosophical and…
Read more

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…
Read more