Category: Nun Justice

June 1st, 2012

We Are the Body of Christ—and We are Fully Alive at this Moment!

For the past several weeks, I’ve been helping to organize the local Nunjustice vigils in Washington, DC.  I’ve been struck each week at the signs I see here in D.C. and from the pictures across the country depicting nuns.  Sisters have been described as the “backbone” and the “heartbeat” of the Church, “the face” and…
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May 11th, 2012

“Sister, in my heart, I am a woman religious.”

Over the past decade as a feminist activist, I have made several protest signs – signs for women’s ordination, to support anti-domestic violence legislation, to close the SOA, end the war, support marriage equality, women’s health, immigrants’ rights, and Fr. Roy . . . but if you told me I would need to make signs…
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