text: I think the tensions--within ourselves and within our time--relate to being told on all sides: conform or be gone. 
  
  Colleen beautifully addresses this. With courage and  hope.
  She shares a vision amid demands from her Church and from a Movement that she accept an agenda. She sees the Women's March as A PART OF. not APART FROM her core Catholicism.  And vice versa.
  
  Can a woman be "allowed" to be pro-life and pro-March? Can a woman be "allowed" to be anti-abortion and pro-contraception? Can a woman be "allowed" to go to the March on Saturday and Mass on Sunday? Can a woman be "allowed" to be  a Sister and a sister?  
  
  Can a woman be "allowed" to allow herself the answers? 
  
  Can the Church and the women's rights movement be "allowed" to be elite without being elitist?
  
  Sr. Colleen performed risky rigors of discernment; she opened herself to disapproval  from "both sides." She dared to pray. She dared to march. She dared to hope. She dared to claim a right and a calling to do all.