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'I attended Mother McAuley as a white student from Mount Greenwood. Issues surrounding race didn't affect me. Today, I have Hispanic daughters who attend McAuley 30 years later. They see [...]

'There is so much going on in the world today. How can I keep my faith when the world feels like such a negative place?' 'This 24-hour news cycle is [...]

A natural overlap exists between the movement Jesus founded in first-century Palestine and contemporary feminist thought: Both are concerned with loving all people equally. Feminism is a belief in the [...]

As the parent quoted in the alumnae survey, the inconsistencies between the school's actual environment and the legacy of Catherine's mission mainly went unnoticed by me as a student. "I attended Mother McAuley as a white student from Mount Greenwood. But as an alumna of McAuley, the largest all-girls school in the country, and an admirer of Catherine McAuley-the foundress of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas after whom the school is named-I'm disappointed an institution that repeatedly highlights McAuley's care for marginalized women in its curriculum would act so glaringly out of line with her legacy. As the whole nation became more aware of the systemic racism that shapes our culture, McAuley alumnae and students continued to speak out about racism in the school's halls. [Extracted from the article]

A natural overlap exists between the movement Jesus founded in first-century Palestine and contemporary feminist thought: Both are concerned with loving all people equally. Jesus interacts with and relies on both women and men-such as Mary, Martha, Peter, and John-showing that women are of equal value and spiritual depth as men. Philosophical feminism wasn't established in Jesus' time, but his egalitarian ministry shows he acted and taught in ways we could consider feminist today. [Extracted from the article]