Jeanie Hannaman

By Thomas V. Mirus, Catholic Culture - Having examined some of the major areas of disagreement between Catholic feminists and their opponents, I want to take a step back and look at Catholic feminism as a movement. I fear that Catholic feminism is something of an echo chamber, and that indeed, the very notion of “feminism” is so one-sided that its failure to create a healthy world for both sexes is inevitable... Take for instance the University of St. Thomas’s new program offering a Master of Arts in “Catholic Women’s and Gender Studies”. The program offers four graduate certificates, in “Catholic Feminism”, “Women’s Health and Wellness”, “Gender and Family Policy”, and “Catholic Approaches to Sexuality and Gender”.

By Casey Chalk, Crisis Magazine - How much of the Passion did Our Lady witness, and how did she understand it? It’s an important question not just because she is the mother of God but because, as our Catechism teaches, Mary is the “Church’s model of faith and charity,” and thus “she is a ‘preeminent and…wholly unique member of the Church’; indeed, she is the ‘exemplary realization’ (typus) of the Church (CCC 967).” Thus, her experience of the last moments of Christ enables us to perceive the Passion as we should see it, as the perfect and pure Church should.