Jules Hart's provocative and brilliant film about the controversial women's ordination movement in the Catholic Church, Pink Smoke Over the Vatican, had its NYC premier at the Barnard College Athena Film Festival, earlier this year.

I was honored to be making my film debut as one of the experts in Jules' film and to have had the opportunity to moderate the exciting panel that followed, with Jules; Father Roy Bourgeios, an internationally renowned peace activist who publicly and passionately supports the women's ordination movement; and Jean Marie Marchant, M.Div., D.Min., an ordained Catholic woman priest, former director of Health Care Ministry for the Archdiocese of Boston.

For more on the women's ordination movement, see my article in Salon; for more on the film , go to Eye Goddess website.

Read on the scene report from National Catholic Reporter.

If you came to Barnard, thank you so much for your support!


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GOOD CATHOLIC GIRLS IN THE NEWS

Despite the media tsunami surrounding the most recent wave of revelations of sex abuse and cover-up within the Catholic Church, the place of girls and women -- as victims and victors -- remains nearly invisible. Yet, as I illustrated in my book, GOOD CATHOLIC GIRLS: HOW WOMEN ARE LEADING THE FIGHT TO CHANGE THE CHURCH, Catholic women are the driving force behind reform. And that reality has put Good Catholic Girls back in the news.

I am grateful for many thoughtful responses to my Religion blogs--on the Huffington Post, On the Issues, Reality Check, and other important sites--among them:

Women Challenge Gender Apartheid in the Catholic Church, which author Anne Rice took the time to generously describe on FB as "a brilliant artice for those interested in the history and reform of Roman Catholicism."