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Beloved Catholic Women’s Conference Returns After Six-Year Hiatus
Confirmed
In Short: The Genius Catholic Conference for Women is set to return on February 26-27, 2027, at Margaritaville, Lake Conroe in Houston, Texas.
Catholic women's conference is back after a six-year hiatus, offering a gathering for all Catholic women, not just moms or singles. The event, set for February 26-27, 2027, at Margaritaville, Lake Conroe in Houston, Texas, promises a return to in-person events after a long absence.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an emergency request that would have allowed a Catholic mother in New York to send her 5-year-old son to kindergarten without vaccinations required by state law, highlighting ongoing debates within the Catholic community regarding vaccine mandates.
In court filings, Jane Doe, a lifelong practicing Roman Catholic, argued her religious beliefs prevent her from undergoing vaccination herself or allowing her son to be vaccinated, reflecting the complex intersection of faith and public health policies.
Catholic bishops in the U.S. have been actively defending their policies on vaccine requirements for Catholic schools, with Florida bishops issuing a strong statement in August, and the U.S. bishops' conference taking a harder stance on immigration policies, as evidenced by a letter to President Trump.
What's confirmed
- Catholic women's conference is back after a six-year hiatus, offering a gathering for all Catholic women, not just moms or singles. The event, set for February 26-27, 2027, at Margaritaville, Lake Conroe in Houston, Texas, promises a return to in-person events after a long absence.
- Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an emergency request that would have allowed a Catholic mother in New York to send her 5-year-old son to kindergarten without vaccinations required by state law, highlighting ongoing debates within the Catholic community regarding vaccine mandates.
- In court filings, Jane Doe, a lifelong practicing Roman Catholic, argued her religious beliefs prevent her from undergoing vaccination herself or allowing her son to be vaccinated, reflecting the complex intersection of faith and public health policies.
- Catholic bishops in the U.S. have been actively defending their policies on vaccine requirements for Catholic schools, with Florida bishops issuing a strong statement in August, and the U.S. bishops' conference taking a harder stance on immigration policies, as evidenced by a letter to President Trump.
What's still developing
- However, in the 2008 instruction Dignitas Personae, the Church said that Catholics utilizing vaccines have “a duty” to let drugmakers and their healthcare providers know they oppose the way the vaccines were developed and demand vaccines created without the use of aborted fetal cells.
- According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a person must not be forced to act against a conscience formed well through Scripture, reason, and Church teaching, even when others would make a different choice.
- In August, the Catholic bishops of Florida issued a staunch defense of their ability to determine policies for Catholic schools after Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sent them a letter demanding that Catholic schools in the Sunshine State adopt religious exemptions to vaccine requirements or risk their ability to participate in the state’s school voucher program.
- The Catholic Church has also consistently stated that Catholics may undergo vaccination despite remote degrees of connection to such cell lines where alternatives are not available.
- The letter’s language marked a notable hardening in tone from the U.S. bishops’ conference, though Coakley also wrote that he was “humbly” appealing for Trump’s assistance.
- Last November, the U.S. bishops’ conference released a special pastoral message calling for an end to “indiscriminate mass deportation,” a sign of how seriously the conference is taking deportation policies that could impact nearly 1 in 5 U.S. Catholics directly or through their family.
- Shortly afterward, the administration announced a change to the visa requirement that had forced foreign priests and other religious workers to exit the U.S. for a year between religious visas, which the conference had long sought.
- Coakley did acknowledge that the administration could move forward with individual deportations “to advance justice and public safety.” The Oklahoma City archbishop has often been seen as a conservative, particularly because he is ecclesiastical adviser to the Napa Institute, which unites wealthy Catholics around conservative causes.