Celia WexlerNOTE TO CHAIR POWELL: DITCH YOUR SKETCHY 2% SOLUTION!At the Federal Reserve, it’s crunch time. Its chair, inflation hawk Jerome Powell, soon will tell the world whether he’ll impose yet…4 min read·Mar 21, 2023----
Celia WexlerRebel that I am, I still love ChristmasAnybody who’s read my book, Catholic Women Confront Their Church, or my commentary in Salon.com and NBCNews.com THINK knows that I’ve been…2 min read·Dec 20, 2022----
Celia WexlerWhen Ukraine seemed on the brink of better thingsAs Ukraine faces Soviet soldiers, bombs and tanks, I grieve for the 20 Ukrainian reformers I met in December 2006. I was working for the…3 min read·Feb 24, 2022----
Celia WexlerIt’s the end of 2021: Why am I so nostalgic for last year’s Covid Christmas?Remember December 2020? I was so grateful to see my daughter after a nine-month absence. She carefully quarantined herself for about a…4 min read·Dec 31, 2021----
Celia WexlerThe Sack of WashingtonIf we ever needed a metaphor for the rending of the national soul, yesterday’s riot provided it. The U.S. Capitol is a living, breathing…3 min read·Jan 7, 2021----
Celia WexlerHysterectomy allegations prove bishops’ indifference to women’s livesAfter so many reports of so many immigrant detainees being exposed to COVID-19 in cramped and unsafe quarters, and not being given the…3 min read·Sep 18, 2020--1--1
Celia WexlerCOVID-19 harms immigrants and their children: Does anybody care?Last December, Customs and Border Patrol agents in San Diego barred doctors from giving flu shots to children in detention centers. The…3 min read·Sep 1, 2020----
Celia WexlerWould my Italian grandparents recognize this version of America?Among the few possessions I inherited from my grandmother is a sepia-toned picture of her and my grandfather, taken a few years after they…4 min read·Jul 2, 2020----
Celia WexlerThe Path from US Bishops’ Silence to the Screams of Immigrant ChildrenI’m happy that US Catholic bishops, following the lead of Pope Francis, have condemned the separation of families seeking asylum in the…4 min read·Jun 23, 2018----
Celia WexlerIrish vote does not celebrate abortion; it recognizes the moral agency of womenWhen I was pregnant with my daughter 30 years ago, I declined amniocentesis, which could have predicted developmental disabilities or other…3 min read·May 28, 2018----