Meet a rock star in Catholic world

Get Catholics talking on Mary the mother of Jesus, and you'll be in a conversation without end. Mary's been spun many different ways. Silent, suffering virgin. Meek obeyer. Strong woman not afraid to say yes to the spirit.

Feminist theologian and author Elizabeth Johnson writes of Mary in her new book Truly Our Sister: "The figure of Mary is extraordinarily complex. Whether studied from the point of view of theology, spirituality or culture, this Galilean woman has been interpreted and explained, imagined and rejected, loved and honored in ways so diverse as to be impossible to codify."

Liberal Catholicism has its version of rock stars (my judgment.) Elizabeth Johnson is one of them. She'll be in Spokane Thursday, March 25 at 7:30 pm in the new Globe Room of the Cataldo Dining Hall (across from St. Al's Church.)

She will be giving a feminist historical retrieval of Mary, entitled "Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet."

Check it out.