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It doesn’t happen every day, but not infrequently, I’ll be with a group of women, who when they hear I am not only a Roman Catholic, but also a Catholic religious, ask me how I can stand to remain Catholic, given the place of women and LGBT folks in the institution. Here’s a link to . . . → Read More: A poignant point of view Here are a couple excerpts from an article in this week’s National Catholic Reporter: Vatican investigates U.S. women religious leadership | National Catholic Reporter The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has initiated a doctrinal investigation of the largest U.S. women’s religious leadership organization, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. —————————– The Vatican . . . → Read More: Interesting times, indeed… Just returned from an engineering education conference in Grand Rapids last night. With all the excitement of the Final Four in Detroit this weekend, and the added bonus of Michigan State playing for the championship before a home audience, the fact that the University of Detroit Mercy is the host institution for this event seems . . . → Read More: Excitement in the D So, as I squeeze a bit of school work between the wash and dry cycles of my laundry, I thought I’d take a short break to share with you Rome’s bit of wisdom commemorating International Women’s Day… Vatican: Washing Machine Liberated Women – World news | Newser The Vatican’s newspaper appears to have come out . . . → Read More: Free at last! Thanks to the washing mashine! Here a couple of excerpts from articles in the National Catholic Reporter that appeared soon after the announcement that the Vatican was undertaking an “Apostolic Visitation” of women’s religious orders in the U.S. The first is from Sr. Joan Chittister’s regular column. I found her take on the shift within many U.S. women’s communities to . . . → Read More: Contemporary women religious – interesting perspectives Friends, first, let me wish those of you who observe it a blessed Lenten season. May you be open to the graces God wants so very much to shower on you! And now, since I’m feeling the crunch of time very acutely (can I fast from work for Lent?), let me at least offer you . . . → Read More: Some long-awaited justice I was thinking about this past Sunday’s gospel reading, and found this reflection on the Sojourner’s Magazine website. Would that we all would be willing to embrace truth, even if it means admitting we’ve been wrong. An Indigenous woman asks Jesus to help her child, and he calls the woman a dog (Matthew 15:21-28). Various . . . → Read More: Honor and Shame Hello, all! Some time ago, I listed on my blogroll a blog called “A Place at the Table.” I thought I had already written a post about it, but like so many things, I just never got around to it. Claire describes herself as “a Catholic woman defecting in place, I re-imagine a Church into . . . → Read More: On my blogroll… In light of our recent and lively conversation on Women in the RC Church, I thought I’d share with you a piece I wrote for the National Catholic Reporter quite some time ago, the Nov. 18, 1994 issue, to be exact. Enjoy! When I was a little girl, my science teacher asked what I wanted . . . → Read More: The power of allegory Getting back to some of your suggestions for topics… This one comes from Kokopelli25: How do you deal, as a woman, with the church’s view of women on equally valuable yet excluded from the “high-prestige” posts the church has to offer? It would certainly turn me off. Thanks for the topic, Koko! This certainly is . . . → Read More: Women in the RC Church |
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