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What About Me? Women and the Catholic Church
About this book
- One woman's investigation of the role of women in the Christian Church since its inception, as she counters the Roman Catholic church's argument for excluding them from the priesthood
- Details the gradual exclusion of women from positions of power as the Roman Catholic Church evolved.
- Accessible account from the viewpoint of an ordinary woman in the Church.
- Cover quotes from Mary McAleese, Fr. Tony Flannery and Mary T. Malone.
What About Me? Women and the Catholic Church is an exploration by an ordinary woman, born into the Catholic faith of the arguments given to exclude her from ministry. Using her research skills, Sharon examines the New Testament, Christian writings and Papal documents. It is a personal quest to shed light on the story of women in the Christian movement from its earliest days to the present. The objective of the book is to explore, inform, speculate and question and it should appeal to a general audience. The context of the book is the 2010 move by Pope Benedict XVI to elevate the 'crime' of ordaining women to Catholic ministry and the subsequent censoring of religious personnel who questioned this edict. This book details a quest to find out where the strong antipathy towards women in the Roman Catholic Church's institutional mindset comes from.
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Endnotes
The Major Eras of Christianity
1 Taken from Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church? We Can Save the Catholic Church! (London, William Collins, 2013).
Introduction
1 John Paul II, ‘Introductory Letter’, Catechism of the Catholic Church (Dublin, Veritas, 1994), p. 5.
The Early Christian Movement
1 I am indebted to the following books for this chapter: Averil Cameron, The Later Roman Empire, ad 284–430 (London, Fontana Press, 1993); Mark Humphries, Early Christianity (London and New York, Routledge, 2006); Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels ([New York, Random House, 1979] London, Phoenix, 2006) and L. Michael White, From Jesus to Christianity (New York, HarperOne, 2004).
2 Humphries (2006), p. 103.
3 Pagels (2006), p. 112.
4 White (2004), p. 279.
5 Humphries (2006), p. 100.
6 White (2004), p. 95.
7 Thomas Moore, ‘Introduction’, Writing in the Sand: Jesus, Spirituality and the Soul of the Gospels (Alexandria, NSW, Hay House, 2009), p. xx.
8 The Codex Iuris Canonici is an ecclesiastical legal code consolidated as the Code of Canon Law in 1917 and revised in 1983. This is the official body of laws by which the Catholic Church is governed.
9 John Wijngaards, The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church: Unmasking a Cuckoo’s Egg Tradition (London, Darton, Longman & Todd, 2001), p. 97.
10 Cameron (1993), pp. 47, 56.
11 Ibid., p. 77.
No Women Allowed
1 Catechism of the Catholic Church (Dublin, Veritas, 1994), para. 880.
2 The reasons, which I have summarised here, are enunciated more elaborately in John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter, On Reserving Priestly Ordination to Men Alone: Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (22 May 1994).
3 Catechism (1994), para. 1577.
4 Ibid., para. 611.
5 John Paul II (1994).
6 Catechism (1994), para. 77.
7 John Paul II (1994).
8 The references included here refer to the letters of Timothy and Titus, letters that in the past were attributed to Paul.
9 John Paul II (1994).
10 Catechism (1994) para. 77.
11 Ibid., para. 78.
12 Ibid., para. 860.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 See also Mark 8.34; Matthew 8.18–22, 10.37–39, 16.24–28; Luke 9.57–62, 14.25–27, 17.33; John 12.25.
16 Küng (2013), p. 311.
17 Catechism (1994), para. 862.
18 Ibid., para. 641.
19 Ibid., para. 860.
20 Pagels (2006), pp. 36–8.
21 Quoted in ibid., p. 69.
22 Ibid., p. 41.
23 Ibid.
24 Catholic Dictionary, revised edition (Huntington, Our Sunday Visitor, 2002), p. 135.
25 Peter De Rosa, Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy (London, Corgi Books, 1989), p. 19. De Rosa is a former Dean of Theology at Corpus Christi in Lond...
Table of contents
- The Major Eras of Christianity
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Early Christian Movement
- No Women Allowed
- All About the Man
- What About the Women?
- The Fall of Women in the Catholic Church
- The Celibate Man versus the Carnal Woman
- Dilemmas and Contradictions
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- About the Publisher