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"Dissent" and "dissenters"

Friday, January 22, 2010
By Bryan Cones
Charlotte Allen has an interesting take on the deaths of super-feminist theologian Mary Daly, who died January 3, and Vatican II peritus Edward Schillebeeckx in the Wall Street Journal: For her, their passing marks flaming out of Catholic "dissent," and they have no one to take their places.
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Life theater

Friday, May 15, 2009
By Megan Sweas
Along with graduation speakers, the other big fight on Catholic campuses (brought to us by the Cardinal Newman Society, of course) is around The Vagina Monologues. Now, Catholic News Agency reports, there’s a theatrical alternative to Eve Ensler’s provocative one-woman play: The Vitae Monologues.
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Thank God for washing machines!

Thursday, March 12, 2009
By Megan Sweas
L’Osservatore Romano celebrated International Women’s Day in March by publishing an article that declared the washing machine the most liberating advancement of the 20th century for women. "The debate is heated. Some say the pill, some say abortion rights, and some the right to work outside the home.
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Macho Archbishop

Friday, March 6, 2009
By Megan Sweas
Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois of Paris is the "macho [man] of the year," according to a French feminist group (see the AFP report).The cardinal won the title for saying it was difficult to find women who are properly trained for church jobs: "It's not enough to have a skirt, you have to have something between your ears as well."While the organization is "one of France'
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Boy sin versus girl sin

Thursday, February 19, 2009
By Megan Sweas
Women are prideful and men are lustful, generalizes a report on sin and gender. The report's conclusions are based on a survey of Confessions heard by Father Robert Busa, a 95-year-old Jesuit scholar. As reported in L'Osservatore Romano, the order of sins that men face are lust, gluttony, sloth, anger, pride, envy, and greed. For women it's pride, envy, anger, lust, and sloth.
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Watch: 5 questions with Syafa Almirzanah

Friday, January 30, 2009
By goodwink
Watch: 5 questions with Syafa Almirzanah
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The Prophet’s daughters

Wednesday, January 14, 2009
By goodwink
The Prophet’s daughters
There’s much in Islam that favors women, says this scholar. As sisters in faith Muslim and Catholic women can seek out such traditions together.
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No need to RSVP

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
By Bryan Cones
The Catholic diocesan university of San Diego has withdrawn an offer of a one-year appointment to eminent feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether, according to InsideHigherEd.com. The USD the donor that funds the Monsignor John R.
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