The recently concluded Synod on Synodality is historic on many counts. However, what stands out for me, as a woman, is the way the Synod participants experienced the reciprocity between men and women during that…
Jesuits and Gender Equality
For thousands of years patriarchal attitudes persisted in human society wherein the male was considered the norm and the female as created to be at his service. Women were accorded an inferior position and were…
Will Women’s Struggle for Dignity Ever End?
A few years ago five of my Jesuit students prepared and presented an assignment during the course on Feminist Theology. They began their power point presentation with the following words: Woman cries and says,“Why did you…