Abstract
Utilizing NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice as a case study, this paper explores how women religious and staff at NETWORK communicatively frame organizational tensions experienced with the patriarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. Claiming religious organizing can be considered a type of feminist organizing and exploring tensions of form within organizing, this project relies on interview and participant-observation data to showcase how NETWORK constitutes a socio-material feminist third space, named Sister Spirit, in response to tensional dualities. This study demonstrates how one organization manages dualities via trialectic response to organizational tension.
Acknowledgments
I would like to acknowledge Patrice M. Buzzanell for her gracious support in critiquing and editing this work.
Disclosure Statement
I have a potential conflict of interest to report. Since completing this project, I now make a monetary donation on a monthly basis to support NETWORK’s efforts.
Correction Statement
This article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article.