Katie Grimes
-
Catholics Come Home?
Why the church of their birth doesn’t feel like home to many Catholics Continue reading
-
A Church That Does Body Counts: The Immorality of Unmanned Drone Strikes
Today, the Stanford International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic (IHRCRC) in conjunction with the Global Justice Clinic (CJC) at NYU School of Law released a report entitled “Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians From US Drone… Continue reading
-
“Look, a White!” Mitt Romney Edition
(This post represents my second attempt to shed a light on whiteness. To read about the background and inspiration for this project, click here and read the sections entitled, “Look, a Negro” and “Look, a white.”) This past weekend, author… Continue reading
-
“Look, A White!” Ann Romney Edition
“Look, a Negro!” In his classic text, Black Skin, White Masks, Martiniquan anti-colonial activist and intellectual Frantz Fanon famously narrates an incident in which a young white boy points at him, proclaiming, “Look, a Negro!” Growing ever more frightened, the… Continue reading
-
Echoes of Jim Crow: The War On Drugs and Presidential Politics
In her sensational work, The New Jim Crow, civil rights attorney Michelle Alexander uncovers the manifold parallels between the contemporary regime of mass incarceration and the era of Jim and Jane Crow. We at WIT have reflected upon the racially unjust character… 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
-
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
-
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