Geraldine Gorman

Geraldine Gorman is a clinical professor at the College of Nursing, University of Illinois Chicago. She also practices as a hospice nurse with Unity Hospice. She lives on the North Side of Chicago and is the mother of three, grandmother of two.

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What is the sound of a woman leaving the church?

In the synod on synodality, ostensibly convened to consider a "new way of being church," we're asked to imagine this can be done without considering women's equal and full participation. This is where I entered, and where I exit.

A nurse's shoes are seen in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, Nov. 19, 2020. (CNS/Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

In nursing and in church, women's wisdom has been denigrated. But we are rising.

Perspective: Professional equity for nurses has yet to be achieved, but we are closer. But when I returned to the Catholic Church after many years, the altar remained resolutely male, unchanged in my absence.

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