Ariell Watson Simon, Author at New Ways Ministry

About Ariell Watson Simon

Ariell Simon (she/her) is a healthcare chaplain living in central Missouri. She entered the Catholic Church in 2011 as an undergraduate student at Loyola University Maryland, and later received a Masters of Divinity from Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. Ariell has served as a healthcare chaplain in hospitals and nursing facilities in three states. She is currently an adjunct instructor of undergraduate Religious Studies. Ariell enjoys offering spiritual direction, writing, and fostering a theological imagination for an inclusive Church.

Entries by Ariell Watson Simon

Three Years Later, Theologians Reflect on Vatican’s Trans-Negative Schools Document

December 27, 2022/6 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching/by Ariell Watson Simon

America recently published a conversation between two theologians who were looking back, three years later, at the Vatican’s then-Congregation for Catholic Education’s (CCE) 2019 instruction “‘Male and Female He Created Them’: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education.”