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March 2021

March 03, 2021

Catholics Are De-Toxing From their Experiences With Traumatic Religion. How You Respond to them Matters

Do you feel that the work people are doing to recover from religious trauma is...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

What Do You Mean When You Say a Politician is “Pro Life”? A Historical Comparison

Every presidential election year, the same debate returns to Catholic circles: may a...

August 08, 2020

Toxic Masculinity: What It Is, and What It isn’t

What we are objecting to is not men. We are objecting to immorality. And for...

March 2020

March 06, 2020

In Case You Were Wondering, We Still Need Feminism

The women who are mourning the fact that Warren dropped out of the race -...

February 2020

February 19, 2020

Do Catholic Feminists Wish to Smash the Church’s Patriarchy?

The idea of patriarchy is connected with the idea of dominion, and of orders of...

February 16, 2020

The Flawed Nuptial Imagery in Querida Amazonia – What Can Women Do?

Basically, you're wedded to a groom who is not actually Jesus, but a Jesus-impersonator. He’s...

February 08, 2020

Reclaiming Our Bodies As Subjects: Women and the Objectifying Gaze

What if, instead of judging what a woman in the world represents to a particular...

December 2019

December 06, 2019

Obsession With Feminine Submissiveness Serves Men – Not God

The history of women advancing salvation history in both the Old and the New Testaments...

November 2019

November 04, 2019

Is There A Fundamental Flaw In the Institutional Church’s Approach To Sex Ethics?

It is notable that while the Church has often been on the forefront in issues...

September 2019

September 30, 2019

On Judging The Level of a Civilization on How It Treats Women

We speak often of “rape culture” and assume this refers to frat houses, to football...

July 2019

July 05, 2019

Is Reform Possible, Within the Current Institutional Structure of the Church?

If the conclusion that the church needs restructuring cannot not be warranted, it seems to...

June 2019

June 08, 2019

It Is Never Appropriate to Tell Someone to “Cover Up” Because of Your Sexual Desires

It is never appropriate for one person to tell another “I am having sexual urges...

April 2019

April 25, 2019

The Real “Crisis” And “Scandal” In the Church

In short, the “crisis” or “scandal” in the Roman Catholic Church (and other religious organizations...

April 07, 2019

When Those Who Loved You Into the Church Are Hating You Out of It

Here’s a piece of advice as I remove all of you from my life -...

March 2019

March 17, 2019

The Worst Possible Way to Respond to a Victim of Abuse

THAT was the part of that story that shocked you?...That was the news worthy part...

February 2019

February 21, 2019

When Men Say “Understanding Consent Is Hard”

It doesn’t require a special class. One need not pay for and download a program....

February 17, 2019

It’s Not Just McCarrick: Clericalism, Sex, and Male Dominance

Rather than working for equality, the church has enshrined and anointed male authority. For all...

January 2019

January 18, 2019

Of Nazis, Toxic Masculinity, and the Privilege of Violence

One of the sillier of many silly responses to the “men can do better” Gillette...

January 14, 2019

Maybe It’s Not the Book That’s the Problem. Maybe It’s You

When a person admits to being sexually aroused by that which is not intended to...

December 2018

December 08, 2018

When It Comes to the Clergy Abuse Scandals, the Laity Are Not Going to Save Us

We need to deal with the problem of clericalism in the church for its own...

November 2018

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

Eternally Shielded in Rome: How They Protect Their Own

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

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...

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 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 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...