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December 2018

December 04, 2018

Dear Christians, Judaism Is Not Your Toy Box

Jewish identity is not to be treated as a plaything, and you have not earned...

November 2018

November 21, 2018

View From the Eye of the Storm, Part Two: Suggestions For Church Reform

During homilies, we the people are encouraged to pray more. Try harder. Ask for forgiveness. ...

November 20, 2018

View From the Eye of the Storm, Part One: Observations on the Sex Abuse Scandal

The church has no built-in system of checks and balances. Currently, there is no standard...

November 17, 2018

“Tradition” – You Keep Using That Word…

While the conservative imagination claims to love and uphold the past, typically it twists history...

November 16, 2018

“Traditional Catholicism” and Fetishization of Women

They are not presented as subjects, as women with interiority and a story. They are...

November 14, 2018

Does the Catholic Church Have a Racism Problem?

Recently Catholic News Agency published an article about the potential cause for canonization of Sr....

November 14, 2018

Eternally Shielded in Rome: How They Protect Their Own

by guest writer MJ Lisbeth When you go to France, people expect you to...

November 09, 2018

Incivility Is Not the Problem

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

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 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...

September 2018

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 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 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 20, 2018

Review of The Wineskins: Shut Me Up Sundance. Songs for Now and Then

And so in the quiet melody and the hint of bittersweet, in the questioning of...

July 12, 2018

Catholic Men Explain Me to Me

One serious problem is that religious men feel divinely entitled to have a privileged position...

July 12, 2018

The Pro-Life Movement Has Lost

This is why the movement has lost: it no longer has a moral platform to...

July 04, 2018

An Independence Day Reminder: We Are Not Free

It feels like surrealism to be celebrating freedom in America, particularly. If I have any...

July 04, 2018

I Won’t Be Trying To Say God Next Year: #MeToo and Catholic Writers – UPDATED

it’s clear that women writers have an uphill battle still, when it comes to being...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

So You Didn’t Like Political Correctness (Or: What Would Nietzsche Say?)

You thought you didn't like political correctness, but you hate it when you have to...