Marian Ronan

Marian Ronan is Research Professor of Catholic Studies at New York Theological Seminary in Manhattan and a former president of the Women’s Ordination Conference. Her new book, Sister Trouble: The Vatican, the Bishops, and the Nuns, will be available on Amazon in November. She blogs here.

CultureDecember 9, 2010

Rewriting the History of Catholic Schools in America

By Marian Ronan

If you’re looking for a sure bet, here’s one: until this fall, the vast majority of US Catholics had never heard of Archbishop John Hughes. Then, in September, the Archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan published an article…

(A)theologiesNovember 17, 2010

US Catholic Bishops Elect a Culture Warrior

By Marian Ronan

Archbishop Dolan is a fighter for the orthodoxy that has become central to the Catholic Church since Dorothy Day’s death in 1980—sex and gender.

CultureOctober 20, 2010

Whose God in America?

By Marian Ronan

I must admit, I was pretty excited when I heard about God in America. My husband and I are big PBS fans. As the show proceeded, however, I became increasingly annoyed. We moved from the Franciscans to the Puritans, with John Winthrop ostensibly treating Anne Hutchinson as badly as the Franciscans had the Pueblos. But it seems there were no indigenous people at all in New England in those days—or else they and the Puritans got on extremely well.