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FaithFaith in Focus
Pia de Solenni
We have to advance the conversation beyond one that limits women to emulating male models but instead understands women and men in relation to one another.
Arts & CultureBooks
Colleen Dulle
Lest the reader assume that Sister Prejean’s work against the death penalty, is the sum total of her story, she spends the final pages of her afterword calling out the places where she sees continued injustices, particularly in the treatment of women and L.G.B.T. people in the church.
FaithFaith in Focus
Jean Molesky-Poz
Like Mary of Magdala, women who gave homilies had experienced a deep call and felt commissioned to share the good news.
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FaithShort Take
Alvan I. Amadi
Three years ago, Pope Francis elevated the memorial of St. Mary Magdalene, on July 22, to a feast day. To help better appreciate the gifts that women bring to the church, it is time to further elevate the feast day to a solemnity.
Sister Teresa Forcades. Photo by Emily Briggson.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Dean Dettloff
The tumult in Catalonia continues. Many Catalans wonder what the future holds for their community. Among them is a rabble-rousing Benedictine nun, Sister Teresa Forcades, one of the most recognizable voices within Catalonia’s independence movement.
Sister Mary Clare Millea, then superior general of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, speaks on Dec. 16, 2014 at a Vatican press conference for release of the final report of a Vatican-ordered investigation of U.S. communities of women religious. Sister Millea was the Vatican-appointed director of the visitation. At right is Archbishop Jose Rodriguez Carballo, secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) 
FaithNews Analysis
William Critchley-Menor, S.J.
“We have to admit that things move very slowly in the church,” Sharon Holland, I.H.M., told America, “But this is a piece of really good news.”