Church leaders' condescension an affront to Catholic laity's intelligence
Kelly Stewart NCR Today NCR Today: Defenders of orthodoxy seem to assume that many mainstream Catholics disagree with official teaching because they don't know what they're talking about. How...
View ArticleDifference of opinion, not poor PR, at heart of feminism debate
Kelly Stewart NCR Today Women Against Feminism, a social media campaign that invites women to explain why they don't need feminism, is about as bleak as it sounds.
View ArticleThe synod tells us its priorities, but are we listening?
Kelly Stewart NCR Today Synod on the FamilyAt the close of the first session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family, Pope Francis beatified Pope Paul VI. That Francis moved the author of...
View ArticleArguments against Brittany Maynard's assisted suicide ignore her point of...
Kelly Stewart Grace on the Margins Grace on the Margins: Under what conditions is suffering redemptive? How do you know you're right?
View ArticlePope's rhetoric on women regrettably consistent
Kelly Stewart Grace on the Margins Grace on the Margins: To understand the pope's attitudes on marriage and family, review what he’s said about women not gay Catholics.
View ArticleIt is too soon to declare sexual assault and racist violence things of the past
Kelly Stewart Grace on the Margins Grace on the Margins: Frameworks that assume the over-and-doneness of struggles for justice cannot account for UVA or Ferguson, Steubenville or Eric Garner.
View ArticleHard-line positions such as anti-abortion carry costs
Kelly Stewart Grace on the Margins If you want to ban or seriously restrict access to abortion, it is not enough to believe deeply that abortion is wrong.
View ArticleRay Rice and Redemption Narratives
Kelly Stewart Grace on the Margins Grace on the Margins: Recent comments about Ray Rice were reminiscent of the troubling ways in which many Christians, especially clergy, talk about abuse.
View ArticleLGBT groups continue valuable work, despite losing space during World Meeting
Kelly Stewart Grace on the Margins Grace on the Margins: This week's news about the presence (or not) of LGBT voices at next month's World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia was disheartening, if...
View ArticleChurch leaders' condescension an affront to Catholic laity's intelligence
Kelly Stewart NCR Today NCR Today: Defenders of orthodoxy seem to assume that many mainstream Catholics disagree with official teaching because they don't know what they're talking about. How...
View ArticleDifference of opinion, not poor PR, at heart of feminism debate
Kelly Stewart NCR Today Women Against Feminism, a social media campaign that invites women to explain why they don't need feminism, is about as bleak as it sounds.
View ArticleThe synod tells us its priorities, but are we listening?
Kelly Stewart NCR Today Synod on the FamilyAt the close of the first session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family, Pope Francis beatified Pope Paul VI. That Francis moved the author of...
View ArticleArguments against Brittany Maynard's assisted suicide ignore her point of...
Kelly Stewart Grace on the Margins Grace on the Margins: Under what conditions is suffering redemptive? How do you know you're right?
View ArticlePope's rhetoric on women regrettably consistent
Kelly Stewart Grace on the Margins Grace on the Margins: To understand the pope's attitudes on marriage and family, review what he’s said about women not gay Catholics.
View ArticleIt is too soon to declare sexual assault and racist violence things of the past
Kelly Stewart Grace on the Margins Grace on the Margins: Frameworks that assume the over-and-doneness of struggles for justice cannot account for UVA or Ferguson, Steubenville or Eric Garner.
View ArticleHard-line positions such as anti-abortion carry costs
Kelly Stewart Grace on the Margins If you want to ban or seriously restrict access to abortion, it is not enough to believe deeply that abortion is wrong.
View ArticleRay Rice and Redemption Narratives
Kelly Stewart Grace on the Margins Grace on the Margins: Recent comments about Ray Rice were reminiscent of the troubling ways in which many Christians, especially clergy, talk about abuse.
View ArticleLGBT groups continue valuable work, despite losing space during World Meeting
Kelly Stewart Grace on the Margins Grace on the Margins: This week's news about the presence (or not) of LGBT voices at next month's World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia was disheartening, if...
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Abortion and the 'muddled middle'
20160420T1704-0034-CNS-GEORGETOWN-STUDENTS-RICHARDS.jpg Demonstrators on both sides of the abortion issue gather outside the campus of Georgetown University in Washington April 2016. (CNS/Tyler...
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Memoir of a millennial steelworker
2016_cr_Flickr_Roy Luck CROP.jpg View of the ArcelorMittal steel mill in Cleveland, 2016 (Flickr/Roy Luck) RUST: A MEMOIR OF STEEL AND GRIT By Eliese Colette Goldbach 307 pages; Flatiron Books $27.99...
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