2012

  • To Love Great Cities

    Those who know me in real life probably know two things: I have a lot of very curly hair… and I am a city person. So I read with interest Michael Peppard’s Commonweal blog post on “urban theology,” and would encourage… Continue reading

  • A Church That Changes: Margaret Farley and the CDF

    As many of you have probably heard by now, last week, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) officially notified Mercy Sister and professor emeritus of Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School Margaret Farley that her work “cannot… Continue reading

  • Catherine Hilkert, Catherine of Siena, and Awesome Preaching

    In honor of Saint Catherine of Siena (whose feast day usually falls on April 29), and in recognition of the fact that we are still in the midst of the Easter season, we here at WIT have received permission to… Continue reading

  • What Sisters Mean To WIT

    In response to last week’s crackdown on the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Fr. James Martin, S.J. took to twitter to celebrate and show solidarity with Catholic Sisters  during their time of trial,  inviting Catholics to share with the twitterverse… Continue reading

  • What About the Religious Freedom of Catholic Soldiers?

    As many of you have probably heard by now, last week, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops released a document protesting what they see as an unprecedented attack on religious liberty by the Obama administration. I have lots of… Continue reading

  • On Beauty

    I confess I don’t know much about the subfield of theological aesthetics, but I certainly do think quite a bit about constructions of the beautiful vis-a-vis theological anthropology, specifically, the appearance of human beings, and even more specifically, the appearance… Continue reading

  • Reflections on Holy Saturday with Shelly Rambo

    The problem with a typical narration of salvation is that we tend to have a linear understanding of redemption. We read the story of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection in terms of a strong start, an awful middle, and an… Continue reading

  • Follow Us On Twitter!

    Please follow us @WomenInTheology! In addition to the posts that appear on our blog, we will be posting articles, book recommendations, and news stories that we think will be of interest to all of you.  We also hope that our… Continue reading

  • If Catholics Should Give Up Hospitals For Lent, Should We Also Give Up The Military?

    Several Catholic bishops have threatened that, if made to comply with the HHS ruling requiring Catholic hospitals to indirectly pay for their employees’ birth control, the Catholic church will have no choice but to “give up its health care institutions… Continue reading