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The Vanishing Role of Women in Church Readings

April 28, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Response to my April 12 article “A Woman’s Place Is in the Church” was overwhelming. Maureen Dowd cited it in her New York Times column. Sister Mary Ann Walsh, director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, critiqued it in an op-ed. But one of the questions most often asked in e-mails […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Bible, Bible Stories, Conference of Catholic Bishops, lectionary, Lisa Miller, liturgy, Mary Ann Walsh, Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Ruth Fox, Sister Mary, U.S. Conference of Bishops

The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd on Lisa’s Newsweek Cover Story

April 10, 2010 By Lisa Miller

On April 10th, 2010, Op-Ed columnist  Maureen Dowd cited Lisa’s cover story in The New York Times: “To circumscribe women, Saudi Arabia took Islam’s moral codes and orthodoxy to extremes not outlined by Muhammad; the Catholic Church took its moral codes and orthodoxy to extremes not outlined by Jesus. In the New Testament, Jesus is […]

Filed Under: Appearances and Media Tagged With: Lisa Miller, Maureen Dowd, New York Times

About Lisa Miller

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Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife."

In 2014, Lisa Miller was nominated for the National Magazine Award and featured in Best Magazine Writing of 2014.

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NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD

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