Since today is the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, it seems like a fitting time to follow up on my "Do Women Rule?" blog post. In that post, I explored the Catholic Church's teaching on women and authority and concluded that, while the ministerial priesthood is reserved for men, the Church encourages women to…
Sitting down to write a blog post in honor of St. Joan of Arc's feast day is a somewhat daunting task, I've discovered. Part of me is tempted to forgo it altogether. There are plenty of excuses standing between me and my keyboard: I've written a post on her before, there is so much literature…
This is the first you're seeing of Joan of Arc on The New Feminist, but it won't be the last! To my mind, she is the greatest example of new feminism (next to Mary, or course). I may be a little biased, since she is my patron saint (my name, Siobhan, is Irish for Joan),…
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