March 2011

  • Elizabeth Johnson’s Response

    Elizabeth Johnson’s response to the Bishops Committee for Doctrine’s critique of Quest for the Living God: Response by Dr. Elizabeth Johnson C.S.J., March 30, 2011: It is heartening to see the Bishops Conference give such serious attention to the subject… Continue reading

  • WIT Stands with Elizabeth Johnson

    Today the USCCB website released news that the Bishop’s Doctrine Committee has found fault with Elizabeth Johnson’s book Quest for the Living God. We, the women of WIT, find the assessment of her work troubling in that it does not… Continue reading

  • Women Speak About Natural Family Planning

    If we listen to the stories of all women, not just those for whom natural family planning works in the way that the magisterium says that it does, we will see that natural family planning is not always good.  In… Continue reading

  • A Church that Does Body Counts

    According to the NYTimes, last Friday “A NATO airstrike targeting Taliban fighters Friday accidentally killed seven civilians, including three children, in the southern province of Helmand, one of the most insecure regions in the country, Afghan officials said.” Sadly, despite searching for… Continue reading

  • Some various words on the Annunciation

    Catholic feminist theologian Elizabeth Johnson: “This young peasant girl discerns the voice of God in her life commissioning her to a momentous task. Exercising independent thought and action, she asks questions, takes counsel with her own soul. In a self-determining act… Continue reading

  • 31st Anniversary of the Assassination of Óscar Romero

    Following up on Katie’s post on prayer and militarism, let us remember that today is the 31st anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero, killed while celebrating mass in a hospital chapel for standing with the people of El… Continue reading

  • Who Are the Soldiers of the Body of Christ?

    Ever since the beginning of the war on terror, I have been hearing some version of the following prayed as a petition during mass:  “for the safety of our troops.”  Sometimes, the prayer has also identified “our” troops as those… Continue reading

  • Jon Stewart and the Daily Show Crew on Libya

    This is one of those times when Jon Stewart says it best.  In this first video, Stewart interviews “Senior Libyan Correspondent” Aasif Mandvi on the war, er, I mean “coalition partnership imposing a no fly zone through a military operation”… Continue reading

  • More on Jewish-Christian relations

    While we’re sort of on the topic of Jewish-Christian relations, a wonderful lecture (ten years old) from the always-humorous and incisive Amy-Jill Levine, a Jewish feminist New Testament scholar. Among the topic she addresses: why we need to pay attention… Continue reading