Barstool Sports often traffics in raunchy college humor that objectifies women. Feminist theologian Megan McCabe calls this culture an offense against the centrality of dignity as established by Gaudium et Spes.
Distinctly Catholic: I attended one of Warren's town halls in New Hampshire. I have never seen a more gifted communicator on the campaign trail. In the autumn, it all started to fall apart.
Commentary: The message that fasting requires pure motives, separated from dieting, disqualifies the scores of Catholic women who negotiate the pressures of a culture that judges women's bodies.
A new social statement from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America labels patriarchy and sexism as sins and acknowledges the church’s complicity in them.
We say: In the abuse crisis, it is not the sins of the individuals that should now be the focus. It is the institutional corruption that they came to represent.
Distinctly Catholic: If the first campaign swing through Iowa was any indication, Warren seems to generate an enthusiasm for herself and her message that is palpable.
We say: Sidelined for too long, women aren't going away. Perhaps the utter scandal to which an all-male clerical culture has subjected the church will finally force a change.
Allegations of assault and tales of 1980s partying have led some to come to the defense of today's Jesuit prep schools. Others say misogyny and entitlement are still dangers of prep-school culture.
NCR Today: The young, ecumenical Christian elders, and the interfaith community all are moving to draw our nation back to basic shared religious values of truth, justice, love and respect.
