Jamie Manson

Grace on the margins: Survivors were right to be disappointed that their demands were not met, but anyone listening to press briefings could hear that the bishops who went to Rome were nowhere near ready to take action.

Grace on the Margins: The truth is women should be priests, and we should be unafraid to say so, because allowing women to be priests is simply the just and right thing to do.

Grace on the Margins: Why does the pope who once told priests to "smell like the sheep" keep favoring abusive prelates and doubting their victims?

Grace on the Margins: In a new interview, Francis reasserts the criteria for banning gay men from seminaries. No matter how you interpret his words, they harm and denigrate LGBTQ Catholics.

A peaceful protest just steps from St. Peter's Square turned into a clash with Roman police, as bishops and cardinals were entering the opening session of the Synod of Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment on Oct. 3.

The delegates at the bishops' youth synod this month will hear few, if any, women's voices during the meeting, so more than 50 advocates and scholars gathered ahead of time to launch a new book and draw attention to the need for more women in church leadership and reforms.

Grace on the Margins: During the World Meeting of Families last week, signs that Ireland has indeed moved on from the church of their childhood years could be seen clearly in Dublin's streets, and heard in the voices of the taxi drivers who navigate them.

Grace on the Margins: If World Meeting of Families organizers had any hope of playing down LGBTQ issues in the church, LGBTQ Catholic activists and their allies dashed those aspirations this week in Dublin.

Grace on the Margins: The young women and children who suffered at Ireland's Catholic institutions also deserve an act of contrition by the pope, hierarchy, clergy and women religious.

Humanae Vitae at 50: Those who believe that that church's ban on artificial contraceptives does not matter need to hear this wake-up call: Untold numbers of women and children have died, will die and are dying right now as a direct consequence of Humanae Vitae.

Grace on the Margins: Both women and LBGTQ people are equally marginalized in the church by complementarity. But complementarity is a point where, together, we can strive for justice.

Grace on the Margins: In the face of spiritual harm, loss of work and civil rights, and physical violence endured by LGBTQ persons, are Francis' words to Juan Carlos Cruz adequate?

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Grace on the Margins: Francis' new apostolic exhortation demonstrates that his limited understanding of women and the restrictions he places on women's vocations in the world and the church have serious spiritual ramifications.

Grace on the Margins: The Ecumenical Catholic Communion ordained Denise Donato as its first female bishop Feb. 9. As a bishop, Donato will help to serve the ECC's 51 parishes in the United States.

Nearly 100 women, men and children gathered Jan. 21 in New York's Union Square for a prayer service, a march to a nearby parish and a Mass to celebrate "the power of feminist activism and sacrament."

Catholics and Catholic reform groups were among the hundreds of thousands who turned out on the streets throughout the nation for the second annual Women's March.

Grace on the Margins: Lately it feels like every day another a man vanishes from the limelight, as if taken by a plague. But in these cases, the pestilence was of their own making. Let's call it like it is: It's patriarchy.

Decades of interfaith dialogue have demonstrated that there are many similarities among the three major Abrahamic faiths, including a common exclusion of women from religious and spiritual leadership.

The first three recipients of the Lucile Murray Durkin Scholarship Fund for Women Discerning Priestly Ordination, operated through the Women's Ordination Conference, have been named.