June 2011
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Is Sexual Complementarity An Argument Against Same-Sex Relationships?
In addition to being used as an argument against artificial birth control and women’s ordination, sexual complementarity is also put forth as an argument against the goodness of same-sex relationships. According to this thinking, the procreative compatibility of male and… Continue reading
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Reflections on Pregnancy
Being pregnant is hard. Continue reading
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Just Hoops: Thoughts on Gender and Basketball
I’ve often wondered whether the wood of the basketball court as much as that of the church pew became the springboard for my incipient feminist consciousness. Long before theology there were sports, especially basketball. As we know, a predilection for… Continue reading
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Smile, ladies!–Or not.
I’m taking a brief break from my “Weight, Food, and God” posts to discuss something almost negligible. Almost. This post will have none of the depth, academic acumen, or gravitas of all of the recent posts my fellow WITs have… Continue reading
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A Double-Standard for Women and Violence In the Media?
Recently, 23 year old R&B singer Rihanna released the music video for her song, “Man Down” in which she sings of the agony and terror she feels after killing a man who raped her. In response, at least four… Continue reading
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Artificial Insemination: St. Augustine’s Ideal Sex Act?
The Catholic magisterium considers artificial insemination to be wrong, even in the case of a wife being artificially inseminated by her husband. As Donum Vitae argues, “artificial insemination within marriage cannot be admitted except for those cases in which the… Continue reading
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The Woman I Loved for Four Years
And now for something a bit different. We Women of WIT would like to share the following short reflection written by a friend of the blog for a performance of monologues written by LGBT folks. It represents a different manner of… Continue reading
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Retired Brooklyn bishop praises Catholic support for LGBT rights
Our readers may be interested in this editorial on Catholic support for LGBT rights by Bishop Joseph Sullivan, retired auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn. While one might rightly wish that Bishop Sullivan had not depicted the Roman Catholic community and the… Continue reading
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“Ethnic” Hymns in White Churches Take Two
I want to follow-up on Sonja’s excellent and thought-provoking discussion of the singing of “ethnic” hymns in white churches by adding a few thoughts of my own. Before answering the question of whether predominantly white Christian communities should sing Negro… Continue reading