What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

Feminist liberationists have long claimed that discrimination against women is the model for favoring the power of elites over the rest with negative consequences worldwide. The Amazonian Synod only reinforced the claim. The mistakes were breathtakingly obvious and relatively easy to fix.

Vatican’s ‘Dumbed Down Version of an Old Argument’ on Gender Can’t Stop Changes in Catholicism

The past two popes insist, against mounting evidence, that the gender binary, male and female, is given in nature and blessed by God. God, a male after all, created them Male and Female. The Genesis account inconveniently leaves out the detail about the blue and pink blankets and onesies.

Pope Francis Dithering About Women, Skittish About Cops

In continuing to oppose women's ordination the pope argues that something has to be revealed in order for it to be done; but that we don’t do it so it must not have been revealed. A cursory examination of change on Catholic views of the death penalty and usury make quick mincemeat of that argument. Revelation provides direction toward increased justice; it's not a checklist of historical givens.

As UN Considers Status of Women, It’s Time for the Vatican to Take Its Rightful Place

It's hard to name a state or religious group that's done more than the Holy See to thwart the spirit and the letter of CSW which affirms that the fundamental freedoms of all women and girls is essential for the achievement of gender equality.

Rome Has Spoken and Rome Is Finished: The Vatican’s Sexual Abuse Summit ‘Failed Miserably’

The recently concluded Vatican summit on sexual abuse in the church was framed in the same old top-down way that's at the heart of the problem. Lay people, both women and men, experts in the law, psychology, and theology were excluded. What could be more wrong with this picture?

Vatican Sexual Abuse Meeting Is Destined to Fail—To Stop the Problem or the Decline

With no women, lay people, or survivors invited, nothing will change and everyone will go home feeling righteous about having "done" something. The something will be more prayer than policy, more story than analysis, more circling the wagons than opening the doors to the light of justice.

Catholics Are Facing a Very Real Emergency

What's needed is a massive overhaul so that Catholic communities can be run by trained lay people rather than be ruled by incompetent and sometimes criminal bishops.

Kavanaugh’s ‘Jesuitical’ Response to ‘Abomination’ of ‘Roe v. Wade’ in 2006

Jesuitical: crafty; sly; intriguing.

Earth to Planet Catholic: Francis Papacy is no Picnic

Catholic Voters No Longer Beholden to Bishops and Abortion

Catholics have often been urged by their clergy to be single-issue voters when it comes to abortion. But this year a much broader social justice agenda is guiding these voters.