In Spiritual Criminals, Michelle Nickerson relays an obvious but salient fact: the development of the Catholic Left in the 1960s “overlapped with the feminist movement as well as the civil rights movement” (p. 49). My prior posts in this series have touched more on the civil rights movement than feminism. In any discussion of Catholicism, however, some meditation on its historical (and present) patriarchal structure is unavoidable. One must reckon with how material, social, and theological structure of the institution is gender-based. In the context of this book, moreover, it must be applied to political and social activism in a Read more