Category: Guest Post

[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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[Editor’s Note: This post is written by Alyssa, our summer intern whom we’re so excited to be welcoming to the WOC team! Alyssa (she/her/hers) is a Catholic young woman from California and an incoming college student. She has worked in women’s advocacy throughout high school, done personal advocacy for women’s ordination, and is very involved…
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[Editor’s Note: While our blogger Ellie is away on a much-deserved vacation, we’ll be hearing from some other voices on Tuesdays. Today, in honor of Pride Month, is the Pride poem written by our staff member, Katie!]

[Editor’s Note: This post is the fourth and final installation in our weekly Black History Month series, which have appeared on Thursdays in February in addition to our normal Tuesday and Saturday blogs.] In the context of Black History Month, we want to talk about the experiences of African-descendant Latinas. This time we want to…
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In addition to the weekly special edition blogs happening here, part of WOC’s Black History Month observation has been a series of posts over on our Instagram (@womensordination), each featuring a Black Catholic woman whose life we think should be more widely known—part of the canon, if you will. The series was inspired by a…
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Congress can’t seem to pass a stimulus package or keep the president from hosting COVID parties. But here’s what I wish they would do: Ban the use of the phrase “In these difficult times.” You want to know difficult times? About five hundred years ago, a microscopic bacteria called y. pestis hitched a ride on…
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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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“Everything comes from love. All is ordained for the salvation of [humankind]. God does nothing without this goal in mind.” St. Catherine of Siena A thousand years or so, and half the width of Europe, separate Catherine of Siena from Brigid of Kildare, but I’m thinking a lot about both these women during these quiet,…
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