This paper examines the first two issues of the Catholic Women's Quarterly (公教婦女季刊), published in 1934, to map how the Chinese Catholic laity navigated the shifting gender dynamics of the Republican era. Structured to integrate global ecclesiastical news with local social debates, the journal acted as a discursive space where the Catholic Action movement sought to professionalise and mobilise women within the Church hierarchy. By focusing in particular on two articles from different sections of the journal, a defence of the Women's Movement (《婦女運動：公教提高女子之地位》) and a critique of birth control (《節育問題》), this paper will explore the tension between Catholic tradition and early twentieth-century feminism, and the elements in dialogue and contrast with 1930s Chinese patriotic discourse.