Open Book: A healing of holistic proportions
NILS VON KALM looks at the Gospel account of Jesus’ meeting with a woman who had been suffering from a flow of blood for 12 years…
Nearly two years after election, Episcopal Diocese of Chicago’s first Black female bishop takes office
Lombard, Illinois RNS Everyone would have understood if Bishop Paula E Clark had stepped away from her call to lead the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, said her fellow bishop, Mariann Edgar Budde of Washington, DC. Just weeks before she was set to take office in April, 2021, Clark experienced a brain bleed while exercising. Surgery followed, […]
US Jesuit university names first woman and first layperson as president
Updated 8am, 12th February, 2022 (AEDT) New York AP Fordham University, a Jesuit institution in New York, has named its new president, Tania Tetlow. She is the first woman and first layperson to lead the school in its 181-year history. Tetlow broke the same two barriers in her previous job, serving since 2018 as president of […]
Cardinal skips Vatican trial to boycott talk of rumoured liaison with woman
Vatican City Reuters A cardinal who is a defendant in a Vatican corruption trial stayed away on Tuesday because he did not want to be in the room when lawyers spoke of rumours that he had an intimate relationship with a woman, which he has denied. The trial, in which 10 defendants are accused of […]
The Interview: Beth Allison Barr wants Christians to know where “Biblical womanhood” comes from (it’s not the Bible)
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, speaks with Beth Allison Barr about the idea of “Biblical womanhood”, what she believes the Bible actually has to say about the role of women and what it will take for things to change…
Marriage – equal?
I’ve been happily married for 25 years this year. What have I learnt that I can share with you? PICTURE: Ryan Franco/Unsplash You have to marry your equal. Your best friend. And you have to see them as that. Now, of course you’re not actually equal. You’re taller, she’s smarter. You’re stronger, she’s more caring. […]
Disgruntled Pope Francis pulls himself free from woman’s grasp
Vatican City Reuters A visibly indignant Pope Francis had to pull himself away from a woman in a crowd in St Peter’s Square on Tuesday after she grabbed his hand and yanked him towards her. Pope Francis was walking through the square in Vatican City and greeting pilgrims on his way to see the large […]
Women
Sadly, for much of history, women were considered the property of men. Their only value was keeping the home running and birthing children. PICTURE: Priscilla Du Preez/Unsplash It was very difficult to live as a woman without a man. Then things changed. The early church gave status to woman as equal in value to men; […]
US names first Native American woman poet laureate
New York City, US Thomson Reuters Foundation The US on Wednesday named its first Native American to the role of poet laureate, a woman whose poetry reflects the struggles and stories of Indigenous people in America. The poems of Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, are “carriers of dreams, knowledge and wisdom,” […]
Many women in Morocco face abuse at home, some are now speaking out
Rabat, Morocco Reuters Bearing pictures of scars and bruises she said she had suffered at home, Fatna Ben Ghala sought help at a women’s counselling centre in a poor neighbourhood near Morocco’s capital Rabat after she and her mother endured domestic violence by a relative. The case of Ben Ghala, 40, and her mother was […]