Women Archives

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.”

Archbishop says Girl Scouts embody ‘hostile secular culture’
- Church in the US, Interviews
- May 8, 2017
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas recently decided that parishes in his archdiocese would stop hosting Girl Scout troops, affiliating instead with the American Heritage Girls. In a Crux interview, he said it’s indicative of “an increasingly hostile secular culture, which is promoting things very different from the Gospel of Jesus Christ and our vision of the human person.”
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Diocese says ‘ordination’ of woman as Catholic priest not valid
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- May 4, 2017
The Catholic Diocese of Charlotte said it would be sinful to receive a fake sacrament from a woman priest and that includes attending a fake Mass. The statement came after the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests held an ordination ceremony in North Carolina, and announced they had ordained a female Catholic priest.
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Why avoiding the Girl Scouts is a ‘sane, balanced’ move
- Commentary
- May 3, 2017
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City has reached a sane, balanced conclusion in deciding to transition his diocese away from the Girl Scouts. Available evidence shows women are much better off if they take sex seriously, understand its natural links with marriage and kids, delay sex at best until marriage, practice a faith, and avoid nonmarital parenting, abortion, and divorce.
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