Wide Open Spaces Podcast Jenny Connelly

Why can’t women be priests? Will the Catholic Church, can the Catholic Church change its teaching on this topic? Join me for a discussion with Catherine Renneberg, a master’s student of theology at Newman Theological College, as she makes a case for why women will not and cannot be Catholic priests. Be sure to check out the first episode in this set of episodes, a discussion with Reverend Marie-Louise Ternier, an Anglican female priest who left the Catholic Church after 50 years over the issu...

Can - and should - women be priests? What is the experience of a woman who has been ordained outside of the Catholic Church? Reverend Marie-Louise Ternier - who, as a woman, is an ordained priest within the Anglican Church of Canada. Reverend Marie-Louise was born and raised Catholic but - through an extensive journey - left Catholicism and joined the Anglican Church of Canada in 2016, due to the Catholic teaching on female ordination. In this episode we have a dialogue between her...

What are the highs and lows of our sex education experience? How can parents talk about sex with their kids in a way that doesn’t lead to awkward, irreverent associations with sex?Join my sister Hannah and I as we have an open discussion about her work in sex education, the harms of over-spiritualizing sex education between parents and kids, when and how it is helpful to bring theology into sex education, our own highs and lows of how we were educated on sex in our formative years. We bo...

Was the Trucker's Convoy really about freedom? How does growing up in the Ottawa area impact your view of big government? What does it look like to host conversations between people who disagree on pandemic politics? Join myself and Rahil Khan, a longtime Ottawa resident and co-founder of the dialogue initiative Let's Talk Ottawa, as we talk about our differing views on the Convoy and practical approaches to hosting dialogue about issues that tend to tear people apart.

How can adult children and parents have a relationship that honors one another? Join my Mom (Tracy Connelly) and me as we have a discussion about building our own relationship after some years of struggle, appropriate boundaries between adult children and parents, how your parent's marriage impacts you, how to avoid helicopter parenting, and the importance of laughter! To support the Wide Open Spaces mission of healing division:www.patreon.com/jennyconnelly?fan_landing=trueEmail me your thoug...

How do we rebuild Canadian unity after the confusion, division, and political upheaval that was underlined by the famous Trucker's Convoy? Join myself and conservative staffer Dale Aalbers for a discussion on what he saw in downtown Ottawa during the Convoy protests, the danger of getting caught in a conservative social "bubble," the importance of forgiveness in the political realm, and the divide between Western and Eastern Canada. This is Part 1 of a short series on different perspectives o...