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Can I really be feminist in my Church? Catholic Women at a Crossroads
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
7:00PM - 8:30PM
The Den, Damen Student Center
Lake Shore Campus, LUC
This event is for students only!
One of our most successful programs is Catholic Q&A, an experience reserved for students only. The event has such popularity that we decided to hold three installments last semester alone. As edifying as this was, we are back to holding one each semester so as not to over-schedule such rich programming. This semester's event was on October 13 when Dr. Michelle Nickerson asked 鈥淐an I Really be a Feminist in My Church? Catholic Women at a Crossroads鈥�
As always, the hope of Catholic Q&A is that maximum participation and candor can be achieved. The setting is intimate and relaxed; the questions are drawn from student interest and the presenters represent some of the university鈥檚 most engaging speakers. Past topics include 鈥淚s Human Psychology Complete without Faith?鈥�, 鈥淚s Belief in God Irrational?鈥� and 鈥淲hat are Spiritual Exercises and do they Require Stretching?鈥�
Dr. Nickerson鈥檚 topic was no less compelling. As Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of the History Department, Professor Nickerson teaches U.S. women鈥檚, gender, urban, and political history. A self-described 鈥減rogressive Catholic鈥� who dropped out of the church as a college student in 1989 and came back as a married thirty-something in 2004, Professor Nickerson will discuss her ongoing struggles with trying to develop a rich spiritual life and find fellowship in the church while fully facing up to the knowledge of how its patriarchal structures continue to discriminate against women. We are certain that the students who attend will help create a substantive and memorable conversation.
