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November 2018

November 09, 2018

Incivility Is Not the Problem

One of the strangest comments I saw, after the tragic mass shooting at Tree of...

November 07, 2018

What Does “Believe Women” Mean?

We’re not privileging women’s voices. We’re simply asking for equal consideration with those who already...

November 04, 2018

Cruelty, Sentimentality, and Authoritarian Regimes

It makes me aware of how totalitarian regimes succeed. Not because people are evil, but...

November 03, 2018

Things Journalists Wish You Knew About What They Do

You got into this because of this weird obsession you have with seeking the truth,...

November 01, 2018

“Nazi Gun Control Theory” is Antisemitic Victim-Blaming

No matter what the political agenda, we should be wary about making easy comparisons to...

October 2018

October 28, 2018

It Seems Like Everybody Gets It – Except the Leaders of the Church

When it comes to the power dynamics behind sexual assault, it seems everyone is finally...

October 27, 2018

Everlasting is their Heritage: A Jewish Prayer for the Dead

Every one of us who ever repeated the words “never again” after reading about the...

October 20, 2018

Congratulations, Republicans: You’ve Succeeded In Making the Old Abortion Debates Irrelevant

When I first started writing here, I began teasing out the idea that we need...

October 16, 2018

Conservatives Comment on Sexual Assault: A Curious Inconsistency

I think I needed a little breathing time before writing about this issue without succumbing...

October 13, 2018

Knock, Knock – Who’s There? More Than Half the Church!

When I was teaching Women Writers, my signature course for many years, I used to...

October 11, 2018

Two Catholic Churches – I’m Staying With One

by guest contributor H. Lillian Vogl I’ve been noticing lately that there are two deeply...

October 10, 2018

What Does Wonder Know? The 2018 Festival of Friendship

This was my third year of being involved in Revolution of Tenderness’s cultural event, the...

October 06, 2018

“But He’s A Good Person!”

That is how most sexual predators are able to go undetected for decades. If someone...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

What Is The Dispute Over Kavanaugh And His Accusers Really About?

The idea that the dispute is about abortion is undercut both by the fact that...

September 23, 2018

Victims Can’t Always Speak Out – And This Can Compound Trauma

It is necessary for the Church and other religious institutions, as well as our legal...

September 22, 2018

Bad Ethics, Bad Logic, and Sexual Assault Apologetics

Approaching sexual ethics this way is profoundly de-personalizing. It takes away agency and responsibility from...

September 18, 2018

Off My Knees: A Victim Remembers

My response? “Well, at least he was on only one knee.” From that position, he...

September 17, 2018

It’s Not Puritanical To Object To Sexual Assault

It’s not puritanical for us to stick by the single sine qua non for a...

September 13, 2018

How Do You Respond When The Perpetrator Is One Of Your Own?

No matter how hard it is for us to accept that the men we viewed...

September 10, 2018

Abuse, Clericalism, and the Culture Of Obedience

Obedience to God is one thing. But how do we know when it’s God? Why...

September 08, 2018

Abuse and Alienation: In The Church, Away From Yourself

In brief, when your church is the center of your community’s social life—whether in a...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

Forgiveness Is Not Enough, When It Comes To Healing For Victims

While “forgiveness” of “sins” might give the perpetrator a clean slate, it does nothing to...

August 30, 2018

Victims Have the Right To Be Heard – Whenever They Are Ready

Given the repressive conditions I’ve described—one in which authority is not questioned, church leaders have...

August 28, 2018

A Good Reason for Suspending Judgment on The Accusation Against Francis

On the basis of the evidence of past action, it does not seem to me...

August 22, 2018

Am I My Church’s Keeper? A Laywoman Ponders Her Responsibility

Above all, though, I feel that I have spent my life as a Catholic with...

August 19, 2018

Is It Really The Church That I Care About?

To give up because “it’s all in God’s hands” is a kind of nihilistic rejection...

August 16, 2018

Yes, There Is An Institutional Problem: Power

The problem is power. Any concentration of power in a single demographic will lead ultimately...

August 14, 2018

On The Clerical Sex Abuse Scandal, Scapegoating, and Justice

It’s important to distinguish between scapegoating and the pursuit of justice, and not to try...

July 2018

July 28, 2018

I Spent NFP Awareness Week In Conversation With Questioners

In an intellectual arena where Catholic speakers and writers feel comfortable openly mocking the church’s...

July 23, 2018

Of Blackberries, Summer, and the Frailty of Time

Time is, we know from philosophy, theology, and physics, something of an illusion. This is...

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