Category: Feminism

The prodigal Squiggy returned! On March 10th!  I believe his Dad (Fred, my husband, who died on March 10th) wanted me to celebrate on a day that I feared would bring up a lot of memories, thoughts, and emotions. And with this whole process of grief, I realize, I can celebrate and memorialize Fred’s life…
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As I have shared, I am a new board member of the Women’s Ordination Conference.  I am also a member of the board’s outreach committee which is the group that spearheads our Wildflowers of the Grassroots effort. I wanted to share some information on both of these groups, in the hopes I can entice some…
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One of my news sources of choice is The Nation magazine. I read it weekly because I find stories that are different from those trending even in the liberal side of the mainstream press. There’s a closer look and often a challenge to the status quo, whatever the subject. The subject is rarely religion, but…
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“Mother’s Day at a migrant shelter?” My attention is drawn to this story by its author, Rhina Guidos, Global Sisters Report’s Latin American correspondent, in an NCR Forward letter. “We know that you’re whole as you are?” Ariell Watson Simon writes for New Ways Ministry about the message a group of women religious wanted to…
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Holy Week readings in the Catholic Lectionary leave out the story of Mary Magdalene at the empty tomb. Here at WOC, we embrace Mary’s role as the Apostle to the Apostles, the First Evangelist, the first to interact with the Resurrected Christ, the one without whom we’d have no news of the resurrection.  Before the…
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We thought we were so smart. Forced to take Latin, we freshmen had a new word: “the Ides.” Or maybe it was because we were forced to read Shakespeare’s version. We knew to “Beware the Ides of March.” We understood the power of Roman conspiracy. “Et tu, Brute?” and all that. It may not seem…
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Many of us, me included, have had a very complicated relationship with Mother Mary. Or rather, with how she was portrayed to us and we, in our childhood innocence,  took her as lifeless and submissive as she had been presented. On my path to feminine empowerment, however, she has been my biggest cheerleader. I first…
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This week, I’m collecting articles under three headings: Pope Francis, whose tenth anniversary will be March 13; Synod, but I’m waiting for the North American report, which is due March 31; and Women, which I will write about this week for International Women’s Day, March 8. The Synod process has revealed worldwide concern about the…
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As daughters of Vatican II, my friends and I were energized by Pope Francis’s call for a Synod on Synodality. It was a chance for us to share our concerns—and our joys and our hopes—with one another and with the wider church. Since there were no synod meetings held at our parish, we formed our…
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As a woman in the Church, Mary has been both a source of challenge and a source of peace for me throughout my discernment and growth as a minister. In a faith that holds Jesus as the perfect example of love and personhood, it has been hard for me to understand the need to hold…
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