feminism

The Vatican flickr stream takes us behind the female-free scenes.

Novelist, essayist and biographer Mary Gordon takes on Pope Francis’ treatment of American nuns, and by extension his and the Catholic Church’s attitudes toward women as a whole, in an essay in the…

An interview with Leslie Dorrough Smith on her new book, “Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the Politics of Concerned Women for America.”

A group of U.S. priests has sent a letter to Pope Francis criticizing Cardinal Gerhard Müller, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, for his harsh takedown of the…

Here in my beloved South, the main characters in our political drama are still men, on the left and the right, wearing clerical collars and officers’ uniforms. Moral Mondays have now started up again…

Last week a curious headline began to make the rounds online: “Jesus had an ugly sister-in-law.” It was the title of a blog post about the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” a papyrus fragment that caused a…

A mild-mannered schoolteacher doubles as an education-defending Muslim heroine.

“I find that really hurtful that as a woman who’s been a member my whole life who’s faithfully attended, paid my tithing, held a calling—that the fact that I don’t have a Y chromosome would prevent me from being allowed to sit before my prophet and listen to his words.”

In these days of political polarization much of the public discussion, particularly when it comes to religion, has shifted from what is said to how it is said. Forget about equality, the narrative goes, are you demanding it in a kind and civil tone? Maybe civility, unity and tolerance ain’t all they’re cracked up to be…

LDS Church turns away women seeking equality and access to men’s-only meeting.