Jamie Manson is a columnist and books editor at the National Catholic Reporter. She is a three-time winner of the Religion News Writers Association's (RNA) award for Commentary of the Year and has garnered over a dozen Catholic Press Association awards for her work at NCR. She also won the 2015 Wilbur Award for Best Online Religion News Story for her piece "Feminism in Faith" about St. Joseph Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, written for Buzzfeed. Her activism on behalf of women and LGBTQ people earned her the Theresa Kane Award for Women of Vision and Courage from Women’s Ordination Worldwide in 2015. She is editor of Changing the Questions: Explorations in Christian Ethics, a collection of writings by Mercy Sr. Margaret Farley (Orbis, 2015). She received her Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School, where she studied Catholic theology and sexual ethics.

Jamie travels around the country as a speaker, retreat leader and media commentator on issues related to women and LGBTQ Catholics, young adult Catholics, and the future of the church.

Jamie began her career as director of publications at Yale Divinity School where she created an entirely new publications program and photo archive, and re-launched the School’s magazine, Reflections, serving as its editor in chief for five years. She also served as pastoral associate and director of faith formation at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Manhattan and later as director of social justice ministries at Jan Hus Presbyterian Church in Manhattan where she ministered full time to the needs of the City's poor and homeless populations.

Follow her on Twitter @jamielmanson 

 

 

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Sanctuary ministry that has aided thousands of immigrants needs new home

Oct 18, 2018

For more than three decades, the subterranean level of Trinity United Methodist Church in Berkeley, California, is the place the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant has called home. Its simple red door at the bottom of a stairway has been the gateway to safe and secure passage into the United States for thousands of immigrants and refugees. Despite its rundown environs, Franciscan Sr. Maureen Duignan, the organization's executive director, is deeply worried the program may soon lose this space.

Catholic Women Speak network calls for church reform, focus on women

Oct 3, 2018

The delegates at the bishops' youth synod this month will hear few, if any, women's voices during the meeting, so more than 50 advocates and scholars gathered ahead of time to launch a new book and draw attention to the need for more women in church leadership and reforms.

In Dublin, the rejection of the pope was the reckoning of a people

Aug 29, 2018

GSR Today - During the World Meeting of Families last week, signs that Ireland has indeed moved on from the church of their childhood years could be seen clearly in Dublin's streets, and heard in the voices of the taxi drivers who navigate them.

When in Dublin, Francis should apologize for Magdalene laundries, too

Aug 17, 2018

Grace on the Margins - The young women and children who suffered at Ireland's Catholic institutions also deserve an act of contrition by the pope, hierarchy, clergy and women religious.