JANUARY 1, 2019 THE SOLEMNITY OF MARY, MOTHER OF GOD WAMŨYŨ TERESIA WACHIRA, IBVM The feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God is one of the greatest feasts in the Church calendar. This is also the day that the whole world celebrates the World Day of Peace; peace in our hearts, in
Taste - December 2018 In devoting this second issue in the series on the five senses to taste, and hence to cooking, to eating together, to sharing and to harmony, we had in mind the Christmas festivities. And Enzo Bianchi, a famous cook as well as the founder of a new monastic community and a
Prepare your heart Advent begins Sunday, Dec. 2 Advent is that unchangeable season when the same concepts, the same words rise over and over again, year after year, to challenge our hearts and plague our minds. Advent is the season of waiting. And who hasn’t waited? When we are little children, we wait for
Women facing the Church's crisis - October 2018 “If one member suffers all suffer together”, Pope Francis wrote, quoting Paul in his Letter to the People of God. We have interpreted this as a request addressed to women to make their voices and their reflections heard in order to take on, together with men
Blog post from CWS member Mary Pezzulo, originally published on Patheos.com 21st October 2018 I don’t know how to tell you that you shouldn’t mock people in spiritual crisis. If you are a Christian and that is not obvious to you, I don’t know what more I can say. I don’t know how to
Do: Biskupów rzymskokatolickich, Kardynałów, wszystkich głosujących członków synodu dotyczącego młodzieży, do Papieża Franciszka Przełożone katolickich zakonów żeńskich powinny głosować na synodzie. Dwóch braci zakonnych uczestniczy w obecnym synodzie dotyczącym młodzieży z prawem głosowania, ale żadna z sióstr zakonnych nie ma prawa do głosowania. Wzywamy biskupów, kardynałów, liderów synodu biskupów oraz papieża, aby stworzyli dla
Guest post from Lillian Vogl on CWS Member Rebecca Bratten-Weiss' Blog. Originally published on Patheos.com 11th October 2018. I’ve been noticing lately that there are two deeply different belief systems found among people who call themselves “practising Catholic.” I’m going to avoid typical labels with all their baggage and call the two groups “Open
OCTOBER 7, 2018 TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SUSAN A. ROSS What a set of readings! They offer so much more food for thought and even dispute than can be digested in any one reflection: we have creation (Adam and Eve, not “Adam and Steve”), the meaning of the woman’s creation after the man
CWS member Sara Parvis has written a letter to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors which was originally shared via the Catholic Women Speak Facebook page and can now be shared with the wider public through our website. Please read, and if you feel compelled to, sign and share widely amongst your networks.
Article from CWS member Rebecca Bratten Weiss, originally published on Patheos.com 10th September 2018 When I was an undergraduate philosophy student, I spent a summer working on an organic wheat farm in Kansas, where an eccentric and heterodox farmer was trying to start a religious commune. We spent a lot of time studying the
