Women in the Church

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett with six of her seven children at a White House reception with President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, Sept. 26, 2020. (Credit: Andrea Hanks/White House.)

By the age of 18, Kim Zember was leading what she called a double life. She had a boyfriend, she would attend Mass with her family every Sunday - and then go meet the woman she was secretly seeing at the time for drinks by the pool.

The organization Walking With Purpose has adapted its signature face-to-face Bible study groups into a virtual study program "that has become a lifeline for women during this period of isolation," said the group's founder.

In fact, he said, "for the first time, a dicastery has involved a group of women by making them protagonists in developing cultural projects and approaches, and not simply to deal with women's issues."

If Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, she will be the first Notre Dame Law School graduate to sit on the bench of the nation's highest court and the only sitting justice with a law degree not from Harvard or Yale.

Ultimately, though, the day comes when fall’s arrival becomes too obvious to ignore and the heat comes on. This dance will come again in six months when we debate when and whether a cold winter has loosened its grip and given way to the warmth of spring

Two Catholic women judges are on the short list of possible candidates to fill the vacant Supreme Court justice seat Amy Coney Barrett, a federal appellate court judge in Chicago, and Barbara Lagoa, a federal appeals court judge in Atlanta.

‘We have been subjected to criticism, derision and even death threats. We’d like nothing better than to return to our mission unhindered by the fear of millions of dollars in fines.’

In this Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016 file photo, a moment of the closing event of an inter-religious prayer gathering, in front of the Basilica of St. Francis, Assisi, Italy. The Franciscan friars in Assisi say Pope Francis will journey there next month to sign a new encyclical, expected to stress the value of brotherly relations during and after the pandemic, in what could be his first visit outside of the Rome area since Italy went into lockdown. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)