Studying Christian theology has given me both hope and disappointment concerning the treatment of women in the Catholic Church. I have been inspired and moved by the mystical writing of medieval women ...

Several years ago, Carrie Gress and I had a brief but memorable conversation about feminism. She was working at that time on her book The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture From Toxic Femininity.

While von Balthasar might seem like an unlikely conversation partner, I found overlap between his book, written almost 40 years ago, and Julie Hanlon Rubio’s new book Can You Be a Catholic and a ...

We rarely see television shows these days where a strong, courageous man rescues a damsel in distress. Instead, the petite damsel overtakes the huge bad guy and knocks him out with one punch. Lurking ...

I teach at the only all-girls school in the state of Minnesota. We are also a devoted Catholic community, founded by the Visitation Sisters to educate young women in virtue, intellect, mind and heart.

Donna Haraway woke up in California on the morning of Oct. 4 to a deluge of emails from her friends. Nine hours behind Vatican City, where Pope Francis' new apostolic exhortation had been released at ...

U.S. Catholic women growing up at the time of the Second Vatican Council have a different experience of Catholicism and society than that of young adults today. While Vatican II women have strong ...

It’s the mother of all synods because Pope Francis wanted bishops across the world to ask their flocks for their views on everything from LGBTQ Catholics, to their priorities on social justice, to the ...

Oct. 25 was my 23rd birthday, a Wednesday, which I celebrated working at my desk in the America newsroom. The pope had given an intervention at the synod decrying ...

Does the Church need to “figure out the diaconate” before including women in this ministry, or is women’s inclusion a vital step toward the full restoration of the diaconate? This talk will explore ...