April 2016 WATERritual – Earth Day: Women Healing Earth
This ritual focuses on Earth healing women who work for land rights, provide access to water, grow gardens, and respond to climate change.
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May 1 Catholic Lesbian/Queer Women’s Program
While other WATER conversations are open to a wider audience, this one is intended for women who are interested in same-sex love from a Catholic lesbian/queer perspective.
May 11 WATERtalk with Rita Nakashima Brock
Join us on Wednesday, May 11, to hear Rita Nakashima Brock discuss “Women in the Military: Implications for Trauma Studies,” 1pm ET
Holy Thursday Vatican Embassy Witness
Click on the photo to read the accounts of WATER friends Jane Via, Janice Sevre-Duszynska, and Roy Bourgeois as they spent Holy Thursday at the Vatican Embassy.
W-CC Response to Crux new funding source
Women-Church Convergence Responds to Knights of Columbus and Crux Partnership For Immediate Release: Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna, W-CC Co-Coordinator Member organizations of Women-Church Convergence, in our capacity as an educational coalition with a particular commitment to women and marginalized people, have serious concerns about the Knights of Columbus as the new funding base of Crux. […]
May 9 Contemplative Prayer/Meditation
Join us for Contemplative Prayer/Meditation with Janet Bohren on Monday, May 9, 2016.
Pope Francis’ Love Letter is an Opportunity Lost
by Mary E. Hunt for Religion Dispatches, 11 April 2016 Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation on Love in the Family, leaves much to be desired—pun intended. If you are heterosexual, married, divorced, and remarried with an understanding parish priest, you have reason to be hopeful that your “irregular situation” can be fixed. If […]
LGBT faith community voices disappointment over ‘Joy of Love’
Mary E. Hunt shares some thoughts on the Amoris Laetitia with Chicago Tribune writer Bill Daley. Full article can be found here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-joy-of-love-reaction-0412-20160412-story.html
In Memory of Her: Kari Elisabeth Børresen
WATER mourns the passing of Dr. Kari Elisabeth Børresen, a pioneer in feminist studies in religion
Amoris Laetitia: Reaction from the Catholic Community
Mary E. Hunt responds to Amoris Laetitia
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