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To be a Catholic in the United States is to know that official Roman Catholic Church teaching often causes frustration with church leadership. This...
Many of us are familiar with the official political stances of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, particularly as seen in the position...
Hailed as the first feminist of Latin America, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, OSH, was a 17th-century Mexican nun known for her theological writings on...
"The Theology Issue” of Conscience focused a lot on Catholic theology. But don’t just listen to Catholics: People with all sorts of religious backg...
Set in an isolated, unnamed religious community, Women Talking opens with one woman, Ona, awakening with the realization she had been raped. She’s ...
Shortly after the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, horrific stories began to emerge from hospitals...
I was riding a bus in 2018 when I opened Twitter and read, “I’m a mother of six, and a Mormon. I have a good understanding of arguments surrounding...
Consider two women, friends of mine, who share astoundingly similar stories. Both women (let’s call them Jill and Sally) were cradle Catholics who ...
As a scholar of Catholic sexual ethics, I see shared concerns in reproductive justice (RJ) and Catholic social teaching (CST). CST speaks to the im...
Longtime Catholics for Choice board member, feminist theologian, and scholar-activist, Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether passed away on May 21st, 2022. ...
The Advocate Spotlight features the providers, activists, and advocates fighting for reproductive freedom. Rep. Sylvia Garcia represents the 29th C...
I was born to teenage parents and raised on my father’s ancestral land in Laguna, New Mexico. Catholicism is a part of my life that I cannot shake ...
Leah Torres, M.D., M.S., provides abortion care at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
The Carolina air is thick in August, even at 7 a.m. The humidity is a weight on my shoulders, smothering my face and making everything seem heavy. ...
I was the picture-perfect youth group kid: I remember scribbling in the margins of my Bible, trying to make sense of the stories laid out before me...
“It was a mistake.” This is Frida Liu’s plea to Philadelphia police officers who discover her 18-month-old daughter Harriet alone at home in an Exe...
Just before Roe v. Wade fell, CFC President Jamie Manson joined Rev. Kenyetta Chinwe to talk about faith, reproductive justice, and the path forward.
When Roe v. Wade was overturned, we looked to the wisdom of co-conspirators who've been through this fight before. From Mexico to Ireland to Colomb...
On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Reproductive Health, upholding Mississippi’s 15-week aborti...
Conscience’s managing editor Kate Hoeting sat down with Reproaction’s chief research analyst Kieran Mailman to talk about their self-managed aborti...