Kaye Ashe’s Spirit Lives in Those She Inspired Originally posted for National Catholic Reporter By: Mary E. Hunt and Cathy Jaskey Dominican Sr. Kaye Ashe was part of a generation of smart, committed, gutsy women who opened the world’s eyes to Catholic women’s potential and barriers to its fulfillment. She died Feb. 15 at the […]
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By Diann L. Neu | Let us join with Earth and with each other.
“Life is Tough
Deal with It”
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
1 -2 PM EDT
Margaret Mann is a writer and activist whose book A Dramatically Different Direction (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011) is an autobiographical commentary on disability. She is a bi-racial Unitarian/Buddhist, a lesbian, and a community organizer par excellence who makes her home in Hawaii. Margaret is a museum docent and a counselor. She brings a great deal of spiritual wisdom to our conversation.
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By Diann L. Neu | March calls us to solidarity with women ― women friends, women’s communities, women worldwide.
WATER Statement on Arizona Proposed Law in Arizona–“Not in the Name of Our God” By Mary E. Hunt Religious justification for the proposed law in Arizona simply does not exist. Rather, the issue rests on confusion, however willful, between the constitutionally protected freedom to practice religion and laws that forbid discrimination in the market place. […]
Kaye was a marvelous woman. We are relieved that her suffering is over. But the world seems a little draftier without her love to warm the corners where marginalized people are consigned and the most effective ministry takes place.
May her spirit continue to inspire us, and the many whose lives she touched.
By Diann L. Neu | February opens our hearts to love ― loving self, loving others, loving Earth, and loving justice.
“Conscience and Calling:
Ethical Reflections on Catholic
Women’s Church Vocations”
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
1 -2 PM EST
Anne E. Patrick, SNJM, is William H. Laird Professor of Religion and the Liberal Arts, emerita, at Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota), where during 1980-2009 she taught courses in Christian ethics, Catholicism, feminist and liberation theologies, and religion and literature.
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Erin Saiz Hanna of the Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC), Mary E. Hunt and Diann Neu of WATER enjoyed a rough cut of “Radical Grace” at the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College in NYC.
It is a good look at Sisters Jean Hughes, Chris Schenk, and Simone Campbell who are three of thousands of Catholic women getting on with justice work despite the Vatican’s continued recalcitrance.
Kudos to the filmmakers for their creativity. Watch a trailer and learn how to help “kickstart” their production with a donation here.