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Angela Bonavoglia

Angela Bonavoglia is an award-winning writer on women’s reproductive health issues. A former contributing editor to Ms., her work also has appeared in the Nation, Salon, the Chicago Tribune, and other publications. She is the author of The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion, and most recently, Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church.

Recent Posts by Angela Bonavoglia

EXCLUSIVE That Notorious Good Friday Homily

April 8, 2010 – 8:39 am

ShareBy 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 [...]

Cosmetic Vaginal Surgeons Clueless

February 24, 2010 – 10:30 am

ShareBy 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 [...]

Media Blind to GOP Hypocrisy in Health Care Debate

August 26, 2009 – 10:19 am

ShareBy 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.

Voices Carry: The Fight for Women’s Rights in the Catholic Church

November 19, 2008 – 11:35 am

ShareBy 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 [...]

SD Choice Advocates Pull into Homestretch, Issue SOS

October 26, 2006 – 2:32 pm

ShareIn 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.

Deliver Us From Evil Spotlights Women Victims of Priest Abuse

October 17, 2006 – 4:13 pm

ShareAmy 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 [...]

Those Incendiary Papal Remarks—What Could He Be Thinking?

September 22, 2006 – 5:04 pm

ShareDespite 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 abstruse talk on [...]