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Nicole Sotelo believes in the power of stories to transform lives. Her work has appeared in a range of media from Celebration liturgical magazine to the New York Times. She is the author of Women Healing from Abuse: Meditations for Finding Peace (Paulist Press) and she coordinates www.womenhealing.com, a resource for abused Catholic women. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, she serves as a communications consultant for Catholic organizations.
She writes for NCR's Young Voices blog.
Young Voices: To be sure, even if Catholic women are re-welcomed with men to be deacons next year, significant concerns remain. Only a transformation of leadership and how we understand ministry will truly save us over time.
Young Voices: Next week is the 25th anniversary of the Chicago Archdiocese's announcement of the intent to create a review board to remove priests, but there is a problem.
Young Voices: If bishops want to help the Vatican understand why young adults are leaving the church, they can start by looking at the research on Catholics who have left.
Young Voices: The struggle for women's right to vote in civil politics is over, but the struggle for a woman's voice in church polity is still alive.
