By Angela Bonavoglia
In his controversial sermon at St. Peter’s last week, Reverend Raniero Cantalamessa expressed no concern for Catholic Church policies that endanger women, writes Angela Bonavoglia, author of “Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church.”
It was indeed outrageous that Reverend Raniero Cantalamessa in his Good Friday homily [...]
By Angela Bonavoglia
At a “first-ever” conference on what they hope is a growing field, surgeons showed an appalling indifference to how women experience sexual pleasure.
Some 150 gynecologists, urogynecologists and plastic surgeons met last month to observe, in bloody still shots and loops of video, the signature ways that the fathers of vaginal cosmetic surgery—and they’re [...]
By Angela Bonavoglia
On this Women’s Equality Day, the author suggests that the Republicans should not have a free ride as they deny women reproductive care while sanctifying the doctor-patient relationship and decrying government involvement in the health care system.
The confrontations between the GOP, the Democrats and their supporters in this health care debate have reached [...]
By Angela Bonavoglia
Roman Catholic supporters of Barack Obama undergo intimidation by church leaders because of their candidate’s pro-choice views. Father Roy Bourgeois faces excommunication for co-presiding over the ordination of a woman as priest. Author Angela Bonavoglia connects the dots within a deeply misogynistic tendency of the church hierarchy that members are resisting—from the pews [...]
In response to a stepped up, aggressive campaign by anti-choice forces in South Dakota, pro-choice advocates are fighting hard to insure victory against the most complete ban on abortion passed anywhere since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 with Roe v. Wade.
“Even in a conservative state, the voters of South Dakota are going [...]
Amy Berg’s riveting documentary, Deliver Us From Evil, makes it abundantly clear how deeply the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church has wounded women. By focusing on two women victims and one utterly sociopathic, ruthless, and seductive pedophile named Oliver O’Grady—“Father Ollie” to those who loved and trusted him—the film takes us deeper [...]
Despite pools of ink spilled about Pope Benedict XVI’s recent remarks quoting a 14th Century Byzantine emperor who attributed to Muhammad “things evil and inhuman,” like spreading the faith “by the sword,” no one seems to have found out just why the Pope chose that particular passage. It served to introduce his [...]
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