Gunning For The Nuns
The Vatican is losing the war of public opinion in the pews. It needs to flex its muscles. It needs to create fresh fear.
The Vatican is losing the war of public opinion in the pews. It needs to flex its muscles. It needs to create fresh fear.
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 04.05.2012
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has denounced priests who have questioned church teaching on celibacy and ordaining women, saying Thursday they...
Rev. Susan Sparks | Posted 10.12.2011
I remember telling a vacation bible school teacher that "I was trying to decide between being a minister or a jet pilot." She smiled and said, "Well, girls can be jet pilots, but God only calls men to preach."
Posted 09.24.2011
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Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 06.21.2011
Mary's gift to the world is brutally dismissed and diminished by a Church that has declared the fight for her voice, her equality and her empowerment to be a most grave crime.
Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011
All couples like to bring the New Year in on a loving note. And what better way for two lesbian priests of the Episcopal Church to demonstrate thei...
Posted 05.25.2011
By Daniel Burke Religion News Service (RNS) Women have been ordained as priests in all 110 dioceses of the Episcopal Church, after the last holdout, ...
AP | By NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 11.07.2011
VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican revised its in-house rules to deal with clerical sex abuse cases Thursday, targeting priests who molest the mentally disab...
Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 05.25.2011
As more and more cases of child abuse and cover-up emerge and the church escalates actions aimed at controlling women -- and not just Catholic women -- the all-male hierarchy finds itself in the midst of an unprecedented crisis.
Religion News Service | By Nancy Haught | Posted 05.25.2011
PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) It's been three years since Toni Tortorilla was ordained in the Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement, and the Vatican's recent de...
Michele Somerville | Posted 05.25.2011
More than half of the Catholics in the world want to see female priests ordained. An overwhelming majority of us wish to see the male bishops who facilitated hundreds of rapes of children held accountable.
Religion News Service | By Daniel Burke and Richard Allen | Posted 05.25.2011
By Daniel Burke and Richard Allen Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) U.S. Catholic bishops on Thursday (July 15) defended the Vatican's decision ...
Michele Somerville | Posted 05.25.2011
The pimping of children and the readiness to sacrifice them on the altar of Vatican public relations, the fear and distrust of women, and the compulsory celibacy for priests -- are all interrelated.
Religion News Service | By Luigi Sandri | Posted 05.25.2011
By Luigi Sandri Religion News Service ROME (RNS/ENInews) A group of women demonstrated in Rome's St Peter's Square on Tuesday (June 8), saying they w...
Carol Howard Merritt | Posted 05.25.2011
Why do women persist in the religious life, or as members of congregations, when the church is so often a test of our resilience, or when our opinions are seen as defiance?
Rev. Astrid Storm | Posted 11.17.2011
I was strangely comforted to remember that, for its first thousand years, the Christian church was ambivalent about the institution of marriage.
Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
Pope Benedict XVI has opened the door of the Roman Catholic Church to those in the Anglican Communion who are disaffected over issues of ordaining gays and women and same-sex marriage.
Rev. Astrid Storm | Posted 05.25.2011
The Anglicans that the Vatican probably comes into the most (perhaps sole) contact with seem to wish they were Roman Catholic.
Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 11.17.2011
The Catholic Church's commitment to excommunicating anyone who expresses support for the ordination of women is another manifestation of the church's continued demonization of women.
Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 05.25.2011
George never said one word about the misogyny that came through in Pfleger's cartoon-like caricature of a brilliant woman respected worldwide who has fought a long, hard battle.
Michele Somerville | Posted 04.23.2012