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Politics & SocietyJesuitical
Olga Segura
This week, we talk with Matias Benitez and Matt Chen, the founders of HeForShe, a feminist club at Regis High School.
An extraordinary minister of the holy Eucharist distributes Communion during Mass at Transfiguration Church in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
FaithNews Analysis
Michael J. O’Loughlin
According to a report released by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University on Jan. 22, just 33 percent of bishops in the United States think the church “should” ordain women as deacons.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Brandon Sanchez
In cities across the country, local activists marched in support of a progressive agenda centered on economic justice, racial justice and immigrant rights.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
The church teaches that sterilization is morally unacceptable, but a hysterectomy could be if the uterus could not sustain a pregnancy, according to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Politics & SocietyNews
Sarah Mac Donald - Catholic News Service
Women who worked in Ireland's "Magdalene laundries" but were denied compensation under the state's Magdalene Restorative Justice program have won their long-running battle to have their applications reassessed.
Activists march holding a banner that reads in Portuguese “Black women against racism, genocide and femicide. Our lives matter,” during a demonstration to mark International Women’s Day, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Filipe Domingues
Ms. Morais’s death is a notorious example of an everyday horror in Brazil and other Latin American states: the crime of femicide. In 2017 at least 2,795 women were victims of femicide in 23 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.