Article from CWS member Jennifer Reek, originally published on the Sacred Hearts University website. 27th June 2019 There is a meme called “This Is Fine” that is so right for our cultural moment it is constantly reworked, reposted, revisioned, reanimated—gone viral, as they say. Begun as a comic by K.C. Green titled “The Pills Aren’t Working”
CWS member Katie Lacz responds to a recent piece by Pia de Solenni in America magazine about women deacons and women in Church leadership. 24th June 2019 A recent article about what the conversation about women in the diaconate “gets wrong” about Catholic women in leadership, while it rightfully lifts up and celebrates lay
Blog post from CWS member Mary Pezzulo, originally published on Patheos.com 14th June 2019 We’ve been talking about sexual abuse and harassment in the Church for quite some time now; we’ve also been discussing modesty on and off. Interestingly enough, I just yesterday found out that my Disqus spam filter randomly decided on a few words that it
Blog post from CWS member Jennifer Owens - Jofre 23rd May 2019 I come to this text as a daughter of immigrants. My father’s family came to the United States in the 1800s, crossing the Atlantic from Germany, Ireland and Wales. La familia de mi madre immigrated from Bolivia several generations later, their four
Article from CWS member and NCR journalist, Jamie Manson, originally published on ncronline.org 13th May 2019 In June 2016, just after Pope Francis announced he would create a commission for the study of the history of women deacons in the Catholic Church, he joked to journalists, "When you want something not to be resolved, make
Article by CWS member and Voices of Faith Advocacy Director, Petra Dankova, originally published on voicesoffatih.org 14th May 2019 Where do I feel a living faith these days? Unmistakably, I encounter it in women. Not just any women – we are after all no monolith group – but with the women who no longer
Article from the National Catholic Reporter by Joshua McElwee, reporting on the recent comments from CWS member Phyllis Zagano 14th May 2019 VATICAN CITY — In speaking publicly about the disagreement among the members of the Vatican's commission on the history of women deacons in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis is seeking to broaden the
Article from CWS member Christine Schenk, originally published on the National Catholic Reporter 14th May 2019 Overall I was more encouraged than discouraged by Pope Francis's May 10 discussion about women deacons at the triennial meeting of the Union of International Superiors General. I was pleasantly surprised that the pope was considering a "sacramental decree" about the issue.
Blog post from CWS member Rebecca Bratten Weiss, originally published on Patheos.com. 10th May 2019 Pope Francis’ announcement, a few days ago, that the results of the commission to study the history of the female diaconate were “inconclusive,” was disappointing to many, myself included, yet I was not surprised. For one thing, I’m not sure he’s
CWS member Ruth Fehlker reports and reflects on the recent movements in the Catholic church in Germany. May 2019 It all began with a small group of women in the German diocese of Münster, who met to read Pope Francis’ encyclical ‘Evangelii Gaudium’, and one day the conversation turned. They acknowledged how hard they
