Kelly Stewart

Kelly Stewart earned her Master of Arts in Religion at Yale Divinity School, where she studied feminist and queer theory and Catholic sexual and reproductive ethics. She is a former Loretto Volunteer.

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Top row, left to right: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former President Barack Obama; Bottom row: Dorothy Day, Cornell West, U.S. Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (NCR digitally manipulated images/Wikimedia Commons, CNS)

Author urges progressive Christians to organize, fight — not dialogue

Review: In Just Faith, Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons focuses on the history of progressive Christianity and the prevalence of progressive politics among Christians in the U.S. today.

'The Ethics of Encounter' makes Catholic social teaching more accessible

Book Review: The author argues that Catholic social teaching offers invaluable resources for navigating contemporary social problems and building what he calls a "culture of encounter" in a country beset by individualism, social division and unjust hierarchy.

View of the ArcelorMittal steel mill in Cleveland, 2016 (Flickr/Roy Luck)

Memoir of a millennial steelworker

Book review: Rust offers a liberal take on the Trump Country genre, written by former steelworker Eliese Colette Goldbach, a millennial feminist from a lower-middle-class Catholic Republican family in Cleveland.

Abortion and the 'muddled middle'

Book Review: Caught in the tension between their respect for the value of human life, one the one hand, and their belief that there are meaningful differences between a zygote and third-trimester fetus, on the other, most Christians, the author thinks, cannot be neatly categorized as "pro-life" or "pro-choice."

LGBT groups continue valuable work, despite losing space during World Meeting

Ray Rice and Redemption Narratives

Hard-line positions such as anti-abortion carry costs

It is too soon to declare sexual assault and racist violence things of the past

Pope's rhetoric on women regrettably consistent

Arguments against Brittany Maynard's assisted suicide ignore her point of view on suffering

The synod tells us its priorities, but are we listening?

Difference of opinion, not poor PR, at heart of feminism debate

Church leaders' condescension an affront to Catholic laity's intelligence

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