Women Archives

NFP: It’s not just a Catholic thing anymore
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- July 25, 2017
Recent studies have shown that more and more women are ditching the pill and opting for fertility awareness methods as a natural way to avoid or delay pregnancy. “All women – Protestant, Catholic, Atheists, and nones – can appreciate this hormone free (and conscience free) alternative to chemical contraception,” Christian advocates say.
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Aquila: Parishes inoculate Catholics against anti-immigrant blowback
- Interviews
- July 12, 2017
Given the mushrooming presence of undocumented immigrants in Colorado, one might think church leaders risk extra blowback when they speak out on immigrant rights. Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver, however, says there’s precious little, in part because Catholics see these immigrants in their parishes and know they’re almost all “really good people.”
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Kerry Robinson: Empowering women isn’t a favor to them, but the Church
- Interviews
- July 3, 2017
According to Kerry Robinson, who’s long been a leading voice in the Catholic Church in the United States, women should be in positions of leadership in the Church, not because they deserve it, but because the Church would benefit fully from what women have to offer.
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Pope Francis has shown he’s not afraid of women with power

June 15, 2017

When Pope Francis meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday, some may be struck by the irony of the world’s most powerful woman side-by-side with the head of a Church sometimes seen as male-dominated. Yet for Francis himself, dealing with powerful women is nothing new, from his experience in Argentina to his time as pope.

What happens when women pray?

The vocation of Catholic womanhood can be fully realized only through prayer. A new book shows how different women use the Eucharist, Mary, Saints, and the Rosary to help form their prayer life; keeping in mind the words of the Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen: “To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood.”