Category: Young Feminist Network

World Youth Day did not interest me until I thought about events that inspired me as a young person. I’ve been asked to comment elsewhere on the March on Washington, sixty years ago on August 28, 1963. I marched on Minneapolis with the National Federation of Catholic College Students, NFCCS. Does that organization even exist…
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(Editor’s note: Casey Murano, our guest blogger, is a caretaker at Bethlehem Farm in West Virginia, and an artist. She writes, “At its essence, I approach art-making as a practice of transformation. My process draws on the wisdom of contemplative traditions and themes of pilgrimage–broadly, a journey through a landscape of some kind that prompts…
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“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair: Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.” Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass…
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“A static Church is a museum church,” Pope Francis told students from Catholic universities in North, South, and Central America and the Caribbean as he and some of their student representatives conversed via YouTube on February 24 as hundreds of us listened in. When we go to a museum, he continued, we knock on a…
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Sometimes I need a reminder of why I do what I do. Regina Bannan’s February 12 post did give us a reminder of all the good news we who work for justice and inclusion of all genders, races, sexual identities in our Church and its priesthood have had recently. And I’m cheered – in a…
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I always start my class with a temperature check to gauge how much energy my students have. My favorite and easiest way to do this is by asking them to show me, on a scale of zero to three, where their energy level is. They then hold up that number of fingers in front of…
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I have no business addressing this topic. I can’t even communicate with Jamie Manson to congratulate her on her new job because I’m not on the social media she suggests. That she’s so modern does make me feel that she’ll continue doing a great job speaking to and for Catholic women everywhere. Articles in print…
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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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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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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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