April 9th, 2020
As it has been for many, being in the coronavirus lockdown has meant that time has started to go a little wonky for me. I didn’t realize until this Saturday (four days into April) that it was April. This cognizance brought me to the reeling conclusion that the upcoming week was going to be Holy…
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April 2nd, 2020
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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March 26th, 2020
Christopher White reports in the Brooklyn Tablet of March 11, 2020 that “United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres will receive the annual top prize from the Path to Peace Foundation – the major charitable organization established to support the work of the Holy See Mission to the U.N.” This article briefly describes the qualifications of…
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March 19th, 2020
[Editors’ note: In this time when the need for connection is greater than ever, we are increasing the frequency of our blog posts to three times a week.] Sometimes a victory is measured in something as small as two words. After obtaining our official status as a recognized Non Governmental Organization (NGO) in the United…
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March 10th, 2020
The following book review originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of New Women, New Church. Forty years ago, Theresa Kane stood up in the Basilica Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, to greet Pope John Paul II on behalf of the sisters of the United States and spoke the truth in love,…
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March 7th, 2020
Marguerite Porete, 14th-century heretic and author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, lived a rather enigmatic life. Little is known about her except that she wrote a work that is dizzying in its refusal to abide by dualistic ways of knowing and that she was burned at the stake for it. She refused to speak…
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March 3rd, 2020
A couple of weeks ago, after Sunday liturgy, I attended a panel consisting of young women about their experiences, their needs and their hopes for the future of the church. These women ranged in age from early twenties to mid-forties. The one idea that has stuck with me is one woman’s call for Holy Impatience.…
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February 29th, 2020
Remember the very first episode of Friends? It’s the origin story of Rachel, who storms out of her near-miss wedding and into a random Manhattan coffeeshop where Monica, Phoebe, Ross, Joey, and Chandler welcome this stranger who’s having second thoughts about getting married. It’s the beginning of a beautiful friendship that goes on for ten…
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February 25th, 2020
It was a random Sunday in Ordinary Time and I made my way up to the ambo for the liturgy of the Word. “Sisters and brothers,” I read from Paul’s letter to the Colossians, “put on, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and…
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January 25th, 2020
Today is the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul. Paul is a conflicting figure for many feminist women of faith because his letters have often been used to reinforce gender roles and stereotypes. Be that as it may, today I want to consider what Paul’s conversion story has to offer women fighting for ordination. …
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