Steward Your Body Well: A Conversation with Sister Shannon

Sharing her experience as a Catholic woman living in southern Ohio, special guest Sister Shannon joins Rev. Terry Williams for a discussion about bodies, belovedness, and boldly claiming a living faith. As a faithful Roman Catholic believer who has experienced dating, single motherhood, and now marriage, Sister Shannon reflects on the meaningfulness of being a pro-choice person of faith who trusts other people to make choices about their own bodies while expecting the same trust from them in return. Lifting up her lifegiving encounters with our partner organization Catholics for Choice, Sister Shannon discusses her journey with finding solidarity and wholeness among the majority of Roman Catholics who support reproductive freedom (no matter what the church's hierarchy has to say!) Links to discussed content:

• Sister Shannon on Instagram: instagram.com/sister.shannon
• Catholics for Choice: catholicsforchoice.org
• Roman Catholic Women Priests: https://romancatholicwomenpriests.org/
• Background information about the Womenpriests Movement: https://progressive.org/latest/the-movement-to-excommunicate-misogyny-from-the-catholic-church-20250709/
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/106490/the-autobiography-of-malcolm-x-by-malcolm-x-as-told-to-alex-haley/
• About Father Richard Rohr: https://cac.org/about/cac-faculty/cac-founder-richard-rohr/
• Catholics for Choice resource "The Advocate's Bible": catholicsforchoice.org/advocatesbible

Music by Korbin Jones