Women’s Ordination

  • Bishop Removed for Discussing Women’s Ordination

    This past summer, the Vatican updated its norms concerning “delicta graviora” (grave offenses against church law). The update named “attempted sacred ordination of a woman” as a “grave crime” for the first time, and specified that women and priests involved in… Continue reading

  • Feast of St Brigid of Kildare

    February 1 is the feast of St. Brigid of Kildare (a powerful 6th century abbess), about whom I have written in a previous post — did you know that a 9th century hagiography (the Bethu Brigte, originally written in Old Irish)… Continue reading

  • Women and the Roman Catholic Diaconate in the News

    I don’t know that there’s anything particularly new or interesting here, but an Evanston, IL Roman Catholic parish is in the news for its discussion of the possibility of ordaining women to the permanent diaconate.  Such a possibility has not… Continue reading

  • Childhood Stories and Women Saints

    We at WIT are aiming for a balance in tone between the academic and the personal. So, this is a more personal post, of the “what forms the background for an interest in feminist theology, anyway?” sort. Like much, but… Continue reading