Tag: Women
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Musings on My Stinky Veil
A few months ago, while in St. Louis to help care for my Papa who was dying, we attended Mass at a church we hadn’t been to before. Like our kids, we love visiting different churches whenever we are out of town. I realized belatedly that I had left my black veil back home in […]
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What Not to Say to a Repentant Homosexual
by The Former Sapphist. It’s been a good 18 months since I renounced homosexuality. For someone who had exhibited homosexual tendencies since the age of reason, I will need to make the most of the rest of my life to go on this journey to healing. One might expect that there must have been […]
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Female Friendships Sans Drama
by Cristina Montes. While I was living in Pamplona in Spain, I shared a flat with two other women: Raquel, a Spaniard; and Rosario, a Chilean. At first, I was worried that the set-up would not work. I wondered: can three women of three different cultures live harmoniously together in a small space? My […]
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Considering Beauty in 2017
Today marks the end of National Woman’s Month. For the past 30 days I’ve been musing about what being a Catholic woman means in 2017, and my wanderings led me… to beauty. I found it rather striking that all three of our most recent popes have been impacted by Dostoevsky, and particularly that quote from […]