TIna Beattie

A statue of St. Joseph is seen as Pope Francis leads his general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican March 24. (CNS/Vatican Media)

Apr 13, 2021

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Lt. Caron Nazario sues police officers; conundrums of the Olympics; Democratic and Republican dictionaries; animals and pronouns; St. Joseph as a model.

Noted Irish theologian and ecumenist Gerard Mannion dies at 48

by Joshua J. McElwee

Sep 26, 2019

Gerard Mannion, who had been a senior research fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center since 2014, died Sept. 21 after apparently collapsing during a morning jog. He was 48.

Book Review

Feminist theologians bring wisdom to fiction

by Mary E. Hunt

May 29, 2019

Book Review: Some of today's best feminist theologians are writing fiction. I do not refer to their erudite, critical analyses of texts and concepts as novels. Rather, I alert readers to their new excursus into literature. I wondered aloud why they have embraced this genre. So, I asked them.

Column | Grace on the Margins

Catholic Women Speak network calls for church reform, focus on women

by Jamie Manson

Oct 3, 2018

The delegates at the bishops' youth synod this month will hear few, if any, women's voices during the meeting, so more than 50 advocates and scholars gathered ahead of time to launch a new book and draw attention to the need for more women in church leadership and reforms.

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Noted Irish theologian and ecumenist Gerard Mannion dies at 48

Feminist theologians bring wisdom to fiction

Catholic Women Speak network calls for church reform, focus on women

Irish overwhelmingly vote to repeal amendment banning abortion

Former president of Ireland tells pope to develop 'credible strategy' for women's inclusion

Theologian: 'Gender insights challenge priesthood theology'

'It was the women who stayed'

Women speak up about equality in the church from the heart of the Vatican

Vatican event tackles women's equality, inclusion, ordination

Beattie on being a Catholic feminist

British theologian (again) disinvited from lecture