The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heavenly Bodies features stunning haute couture and trendy prêt-à-porter garments staged with objects from medieval…
Sexy celibates and unmanly men?
nuns
The American romance of the not-so-little black dress
The focus on nuns in Heavenly Bodies highlights the historical oddness—really, the queerness—of nuns in the American imagination. It is…
Group home for prospective nuns
In a recent article from the Religion News Service, Bruce Nolan discusses a new group home for single women who…
Sexuality and the Catholic Church
This past week the Catholic church denounced Sister Margaret A. Farley, an American nun and professor of Christian Ethics at…
The bishops, the sisters, and religious freedom
At its March 2012 meeting, the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved “Our First, Most…
The Vatican and the “war on women religious”
The recent Vatican report on the Leadership Council of Women Religious (LCWR), an umbrella organization representing roughly eighty percent of American…
Mary’s voice
In the wake of controversy over the Vatican's recent rebuke of American nuns' activities and announcement of plans to reorganize…
War on nuns
At The Nation, Norman Birnbaum, professor emeritus at Georgetown University Law Center, rebukes the Catholic Church for its historical "unyielding…
Seattle-area nuns investigated for “feminism”?
In light of the bad press that the Catholic Church has been receiving lately regarding the cover-up of sexual abuse…
Investigating American nuns
In Commonweal Magazine, Sister X, a religious sister for more than thirty years, writes anonymously about the current investigation of…