Jamie Manson

Grace on the Margins: The U.N. is concerned that religious beliefs are being used to justify discrimination against women, girls or LGBTQ people. It surely has the Vatican in mind.

Grace on the Margins: Both Alana Chen and the students of Kennedy Catholic are emblematic of how much promise many young adults hold for the church, and how senselessly the institutional church harms them and squanders their gifts.

Grace on the Margins: As I watched social media grapple with reports about Vanier's abuses of women, more than one person suggested that he was like all of us, a mix of good and evil. That sentiment should be rejected.

Grace on the Margins: Pope Francis' failure to see God fully alive and incarnated through the work and ministry of women feels like a betrayal by a man who otherwise sees sacrament everywhere.

Grace on the Margins: Some bishops seem to enjoy upping the ante on their anti-LGBTQI stance. But few have been as extreme or inventive as Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Springfield, Illinois, Diocese.

Grace on the Margins: There is plenty of evidence to suggest that the real endgame in the bishops' anti-abortion fight is the radical desire to control women's agency and women's fertility.

Grace on the Margins: The image of a badly burned koala in the Australia fires is seared into my memory and has stirred up once again my struggle with climate stress, depression and even despair. Some days theology is my only hope.

Grace on the Margins: Rather than clutching my pearls at the fiasco of dueling popes, the whole situation has me dreaming dreams of women taking charge.

Grace on the Margins: This week, Virginia becomes the final state needed for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, but anti-abortion rhetoric keeps putting it in jeopardy.

Grace on the Margins: Pope Francis may want to condemn violence against women, but my own experience of domestic violence showed me that sometimes church teaching only makes things worse.

Grace on the Margins: In my time in Rome in October, I frequently heard the synod fathers lament the degrading treatment of the Amazon and the indigenous in the region, particularly women. Yet none of them seemed conscious about the root of all of this suffering: patriarchy itself.

Grace on the Margins: The theft of indigenous statues was profoundly racist and misogynist, and reasserts the white supremacist mentality at the root of the destruction of the Amazon and its peoples.

Grace on the Margins: In 2011, a Fordham event examined declining numbers of young adult U.S. Catholics. This week, a Fordham panel on religious disaffiliation discussed the latest trends and stats.

Grace on the Margins: In less than four years, Benincasa Community has turned a former convent into a home for progressive Catholics, activists and those in need. They have developed a Catholic lay formation program and have attracted dozens of New York City's millennials to their monthly prayer service and luncheon. But their future may be in jeopardy.

Grace on the Margins: Progressive young adults who feel deeply connected to what they understand is best about their Catholic faith are creating new communities of faith. Karen Gargamelli is one of them.

Grace at the Margins: It's rare that a paper at an academic conference is received like a hit song at a rock concert. But such was the case at the Catholic Theological Society of America's 74th annual convention.

Grace on the Margins: Throughout his papacy, Francis has called the church to be courageous and open, rather than "a relic of the past." Yet he is making desperately-needed progress on the status of women wholly dependent on an ancient precedent.

Grace on the Margins: I am tired of the narrative that liberal young Catholics have rejected the church or are indifferent to it. If that is true, why are so many graduate schools in theology, ministry and religious studies brimming with millennial Catholics?

Grace on the Margins: Pope Benedict XVI's letter achieves something he likely did not intend: He demonstrates precisely how the institutional church got into its current psychosexual mess. 

Grace on the Margins: If a woman like Scaraffia isn't going to take it anymore and is emboldened enough to storm out and take her team with her, the Vatican had better start paying attention.