Jamie Manson

Jamie Manson

Jamie Manson, former columnist and books editor at the National Catholic Reporter, is president of Catholics for Choice. 

She is a three-time winner of the Religion News Writers Association's (RNA) award for Commentary of the Year and has garnered over a dozen Catholic Press Association awards for her work at NCR. She also won the 2015 Wilbur Award for Best Online Religion News Story for her piece "Feminism in Faith" about St. Joseph Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, written for Buzzfeed. Her activism on behalf of women and LGBTQ people earned her the Theresa Kane Award for Women of Vision and Courage from Women’s Ordination Worldwide in 2015. She is editor of Changing the Questions: Explorations in Christian Ethics, a collection of writings by Mercy Sr. Margaret Farley (Orbis, 2015). She received her Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School, where she studied Catholic theology and sexual ethics.

Jamie travels around the country as a speaker, retreat leader and media commentator on issues related to women and LGBTQ Catholics, young adult Catholics, and the future of the church.

 

By this Author

Kayla Mueller's encounter with a suffering God

The Catholic church's complicity in Glyzelle Palomar's suffering

Wisconsin bishop pressures St. Norbert College to disinvite Gloria Steinem

The Vatican's #LifeofWomen video project: the bad, the ugly and the good

Yale conference continues 'Journey of the Universe'

Long Island bishop claims proposed bill penalizes 'only the Catholic church'

Synod on the family proves that father still knows best

Why isn't anyone talking about the synod's paragraphs on contraception?

Sexual violence against women in war should be classified as terrorist acts

Public radio series explores transgender lives and the sister who serves them

Mercy Sr. Margaret Farley talks divorce, remarriage, and Communion

The synod on the family and 'the grace of self-doubt'

What's eating Catholic women?

The evolution of Ilia Delio

The crucifixion below the surface of the sea

Author of controversial Washington Post op-ed addresses bishops

The women's ordination movement is about much more than women priests

Time to face facts: Pope Francis agrees with the doctrinal assessment of LCWR

A step forward for married men is a giant step backward for women

Documentary captures sisters' responses to doctrinal assessment of LCWR

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