Mary Hunt

Mary E. Hunt, Ph.D., is a feminist theologian who is co-founder and co-director of the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. A Roman Catholic active in the women-church movement, she lectures and writes on theology and ethics with particular attention to liberation issues.

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Religion Dispatches

Catholic Bishops' Theological Mistakes on Abortion Come at a High Price

The facts do not seem to be in dispute: a man from Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil raped his ten-year-old niece. By the time her pregnancy was discovered, her local jurisdiction declared that she was…

Mary Hunt

September 3, 2020

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What Does the Catholic Church's Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

Feminist liberationists have long claimed that discrimination against women is the model for favoring the power of elites over the rest with negative consequences worldwide. The Amazonian Synod only reinforced the claim. The mistakes were breathtakingly obvious and relatively easy to fix.

Mary Hunt

November 6, 2019

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Vatican's 'Dumbed Down Version of an Old Argument' on Gender Can't Stop Changes in Catholicism

The past two popes insist, against mounting evidence, that the gender binary, male and female, is given in nature and blessed by God. God, a male after all, created them Male and Female. The Genesis account inconveniently leaves out the detail about the blue and pink blankets and onesies.

Mary Hunt

June 25, 2019

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