women who are awesome

  • Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Become a Feminist

    (OK. I’m going to warn you, this post is long. If you’re strapped for time, my suggestion is to read the text of “Punk Prayer,” and then skip down to “First,“. Thanks in advance for your patience.) By now, I’m… 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

  • Women Speak About Natural Family Planning: K’s Story

    This is the second in a series of posts featuring some women’s experience with natural family planning.  The first can be read here. For the post that originally inspired this project, click here.  To read about the purpose of and… Continue reading

  • Women Speak About Natural Family Planning: MJ’s Story

    This is the first in a series of posts featuring some women’s experience with natural family planning.  For the post that originally inspired this project, click here.  To read about the purpose and ground rules for this project, click here.… Continue reading

  • Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church

    Quick piece of news that our readers may be interested in (thanks, social networking feeds!): according to “Rome Reports,” in October 2012, Benedict XVI will canonize Hildegard of Bingen (already commemorated in the Anglican / Episcopal and Lutheran liturgical calendars)… Continue reading

  • Dies Natalis of Hildegard of Bingen

    As Teresa Berger notes at PrayTell, September 17 is the anniversary of the death (or dies natalis, “day of birth” [into heaven]) of Hildegard of Bingen — abbess, visionary, theologian, medical practitioner, playwright, and the first female composer (Update: As Maria Gwyn McDowell graciously… Continue reading

  • Feast of Catherine of Siena

    Today, April 29, is the feast of St. Catherine of Siena, one of three women the Roman Catholic Church recognizes as Doctors of the Church. In her book Speaking with Authority: Catherine of Siena and the Voices of Women Today, M.… Continue reading

  • Violence, Memory, and Mourning

    When artists put into words non-dominant narratives of violence we are able to rehearse alternatives forms of remembering— forms of remembering which defy language as defined exclusively by the powerful, which resist a culture of secrecy and silence which is… Continue reading

  • 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