Remember Ronee Blakley in her Oscar-nominated performance as singer Barbara Jean in Robert Altman’s 1975 film Nashville? (If you haven’t seen the film, Netflix it!) Blakley played a frail, home-sweet-home […]
Author: Julie Cain
Hi, I'm a life long feminist. I have worked at fundraising for NOW and LACAAW. Recently, I worked as an English Tutor at Santa Monica College.
I have written for The Comedy Central Stage, performed satire, sang and now enjoy blogging for Ms.
All women should have unadulterated choice.
Priest Sexual Abuse Derailed: “Whose Trial Is It Anyway?”
A lawsuit filed against another accused Kansas City pedophile priest, Fr. Michael Tierney–the fifth such suit against Tierney since 2010–has tried to ensnare just the organization devoted to stopping such abuse, SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests).
Confession, Not Prosecution, For Bishop Who Let Alleged Abusive Priest Off the Hook
Ms. Blog readers will recall the recent indictment of Bishop Robert Finn of the Kansas City (Mo.)-St. Joseph’s Catholic diocese, making him the most superior member of the Roman Catholic […]
England: 1, Roman Catholic Church: 0
In a precedent-setting decision yesterday, the London High Court ruled that the U.K.’s Roman Catholic Church can be held liable for the sexual misconduct of its priests. The ruling came […]
UPDATE: Business As Usual in Kansas City and at the Vatican
After becoming the highest-ranking official of the Roman Catholic Church to be charged in the priest abuse scandals, Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic diocese has no intentions […]
Occupy the Vatican?
Father Roy Bourgeois, a beloved Catholic priest who has supported women’s ordination, was briefly detained in Rome yesterday after he and about a dozen women marched on the Vatican. The […]
More Priests, More Abuse
The world waits with bated breath to see if the International Criminal Court will take up a case filed by Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and the Center […]
This Week in Priest Abuse
As SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) anxiously await news from the International Criminal Court (ICC) on whether they will try Pope […]
Pope Makes Less-Than-Triumphant Return Home
Pope Benedict XVI is in his native Germany for a long weekend, but it’s not going to be a party. Many German Catholics have turned their backs on the ancient […]