Tag: Women

As Catholics begin a new year contemplating the motherhood of Mary, they should be inspired not to let problems weaken their faith or prevent...

It is the morning of Day Four of the fifth plenary Council of Australia. Conscious that this is a deeply significant moment in the...

“How could anyone think this is protecting human rights?” These are the words of ‘Nina’, a Victorian woman who was prostituted and trafficked in...

Let's be clear on the Pope's letter about women at Mass I wasn’t planning to weigh in on Pope Francis’ recent Motu proprio recognising that...

“Dear Father, I understand the Pope has recently allowed women to be acolytes and lectors in church. I have seen women carrying out these...

The recently-released Australian Catholic Mass Attendance Report 2016 provides us with some raw material for a good discussion about why Mass attendance rates might...

One wouldn’t consider a teacher leading her class to school to be offensive, but for a young woman in Afghanstan it would be grounds...

I had a lovely email recently from a reader who told me something of his sufferings in the Church. So I’ll say here more...

"This relationship between ministry and power leaves women without a voice."

The Synods of 2014 and 2015, called to examine the grave challenges posed to marriage and family life in the twenty-first century, became the...