AbstractWhileRomanCatholic feminist ethicists typically endorse moral realism and crosscultural standards of justice, they also have been influenced by the postmodern interrogation of abstract reason and moral universalism. As theologians writing after theSecondVaticanCouncil, they are increasingly sensitive to the communal and ecclesial dimensions of morality and ofChristian ethics, and to the integral relation ofChristian faith and ethics. This essay will consider two approaches toCatholic feminist ethics that differ in the relative weight they give to constructive work for social justice (realist gender justice ethics), or to the grounding of ethics in prayer and mysticism (postmodern gendered faith ethics). Using critical feminist reappropriations of the theology and ethics ofAquinas as examples, this essay will argue that the two approaches are overlapping and interdependent.