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DOCUMENTS The Media: Modern Forum for Promoting the Role of Women in Society John Paul II: World Communications Day Message May 19, 1996 Woman's Moral Nobility April 1996 general audience of Pope John Paul II To the Women of the World 1995 letter from Pope John Paul II On the Dignity and Vocation of Women John Paul II: Mulieris Dignitatem (1988) Papal Directives For the Woman of Today Pope Pius XII (1947) A Guide to Gender Inclusive Language in the Catholic Church A 1997 Statement from the New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Strengthening the Bonds of Peace A 1994 Pastoral Reflection by the US bishops on women in the church and in society ARTICLES, PAPERS The Specific Contribution That Women Make to Theology By Pope Benedict XVI in general audience, September 2010 The Genius of Women for the Work of the Church By Pope Benedict XVI in general audience, September 2010 Historical tensions visit women and the Church By Andrew Hamilton in Eureka Street, June 18, 2009 Simple Lives: A New Beginning for the Beguines? By Jean Hughes Raber in Commonweal, May 22, 2009 The 'New' Feminism? John Paul II & the 1912 Encyclopedia By Cathleen Kaveny in Commonweal, March 28, 2008 Paul and Gender: Three Jewish Perspectives By Daniel R. Langton, Professor of the History of Jewish-Christian Relations at the University of Manchester, 2008 The question of governance and ministry for women By Phyllis Zagano in Theological Studies, June 2007 Women at the Service of the Gospel By Pope Benedict XVI in general audience, February 2007 Ecumenical Sensitivity Meets Church Law on Women Bishops By Charles Sherlock in Eureka Street, October 3, 2007 Women of the African Diaspora Within: The Masowe Apostles, an African Initiated Church By Isabel Mukonyora. Chapter 4 of the book Women and religion in the African diaspora: knowledge, power, and performance, 2006 The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians: Its Contribution to Ecumenical Formation By Isabel Apawo Phiri in The Ecumenical Review, January 2005 The Church as Liberation Community from Patriarchy: The Praxis of Ministry as Discipleship of Equals By Rosemary Radford Ruether. Address at Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW) Conference, July 2005 We are Church - A Kingdom of Priests By Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza. Address at Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW) Conference, July 2005 Different Voices/Different Choices: Feminist Perspectives on Ministry By Mary E. Hunt. Address at Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW) Conference, July 2005 Diakonos and Prostatis: Women's Patronage in Early Christianity Carolyn Osiek, Professor of New Testament at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, in HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2005 The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians: Its Contribution to Ecumenical Formation By Isabel Apawo Phiri in The Ecumenical Review, January 2005 Moving Toward Wholeness: Women and Religion in the Global World By Mary Boys. Plenary Presentation at the Annual Conference of the International Council of Christians and Jews, Chicago, July 25, 2005 Women's Service in the Church: The Biblical Basis By the Bishop of Durham, Dr N. T. Wright, for the Symposium, 'Men, Women and the Church,' St John's College, Durham, September 4 2004 Ratzinger, feminist? Not quite By Sidney Callahan in Commonweal, Sept 10, 2004 Sex, Women & the Church: The Need for Prophetic Change By Luke Timothy Johnson in Commonweal, June 20, 2003 Conspicuous in Their Absence: Women in Early Christianity By Lisa Bellan-Boyer in Cross Currents, Spring, 2003 Women and Leadership from a Pastoral Perspective of Friendship By Yolande Dreyer, Department of Practical Theology, University of Pretoria, in HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2002 Women in the Mission of the Church: An Interpretation of John 4 By Rekha Chennattu, RA, 2002 The Emancipation of Women as a Challenge to the Church By Dimitra Koukoura in the Anglican Theological Review, Summer 2002 The Question of Women in Church Tradition By Ioannis Petrou in the Anglican Theological Review, Summer 2002 Women in the Work of the Chruch: An Exegetical Contribution to the New Testament By Savvas Agouridis in the Anglican Theological Review, Summer 2002 Gender and the 'Sensus Fidelium By Veronica Brady in Proceedings of The Inaugural Conference Conference of Australia Reforming Catholics, 2002 "On the Same Basis as the Men": The Campaign to Reinstate Women as Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention, 1885-1918 By J. Michael Raley, Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Chicago, 2001 Women in the Syriac Tradition July 2001 issue of Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies, including: “'Bold and Having No Shame:' Ambiguous Widows, Controlling Clergy, and Early Syrian Communities,” by Michael PENN, Haverford; “Women in Aphrahat: Some Observations,” by Adam LEHTO, University of Toronto; “Theodora the 'Believing Queen': A Study in Syriac Historiographical Tradition,” by Susan A. HARVEY, Brown University; “Hindiyya Anne cjaymi and Her Spiritual Journey: The Essential Lightness of Being,” by Avril M. MAKHLOUF, The Catholic University of America Women and Ecclesiology By Janet Crawford, The Ecumenical Review, January 2001 African Women in the Church as the Family of God By Emmanuel Barbara in African Christian Studies, March 2001 The Sacramental Body: Symbols of a Gendered Church By Tina Beattie in The Way, 2001 Women's Martyrdom: Death, Gender and Witness in Rome and El Salvador By Beverley McFarlane in The Way, 2001 African Women in the Church as the Family of God By Emmanuel Barbara in African Christian Studies, March 2001 The Story of a Circle – Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians By Mercy Oduyoye in The Ecumenical Review, January 2001 The Church in Asia in Solidarity with Women Workshop Report of the FABC Seventh Plenary Assembly in January 2000 in Samphran, Thailand The “Feminist Pope”? Women and Family in the Social Thought of John Paul II By Patricia Donohue-White in the Catholic Social Science Review, 2000 Women in the Church in the New Millenium Sister Sharon Euart,RSM, September 2000 Women in Christian Leadership By Dr. M. Eleanor Irwin in McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry, vol 3, 2000 John Paul II's Ut Unum Sint and Conversation with Women By Sally M. Vance-Trembath in Theological Studies, March 1999 Patriarchal and Hierarchical Nature of the Church Seen as the Fundamental Barrier to Women's Participation From the Report on the Participation of Women in the Catholic Church in Australia published by Harper Collins Religious, 1999 Dominant Common Characteristics of Perceptions Concerning the Participation of Women in the Church From the Report on the Participation of Women in the Catholic Church in Australia published by Harper Collins Religious, 1999 Two contrasting Perceptions of Women in the Catholic Church of Australia From the Report on the Participation of Women in the Catholic Church in Australia published by Harper Collins Religious, 1999 The Female Body and the Sacramental Priesthood in neo-orthodox Catholic Theology Chapter Four in God's Mother, Eve's Advocate. A Gynocentric Refiguration of Marian Symbolism in Engagement with Luce Irigaray, Centre for Comparative Studies in Religion and Gender, University of Bristol, 1999 Male Discourse about God in the Liturgy and Its Effects on Women By Ida Raming in Lumen Vitae, Revue Internationale de Catéchèse et de Pastorale, 1999 Human Rights in the Church: A Non-right for Women in the Church? By Marie-Thérèse Van Lunen Chenu, 1998 The Feminist Pope: But Who Does the Dishes? By Sidney Callahan in Commonweal, April 10, 1998 Women Ministering: Change Amongst the Churches By Jean Mayland in The Way, 1998 Woman, Wife, Mother, Catholic and Feminist: A Contemporary American View By Wendy M. Wright in The Way, 1998 The Missing Voice: African Women Doing Theology By Nyambura J. Njoroge of Women and Men in Partnership Programme, World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Geneva, in Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, November 1997 A Discipleship of Love: Mary of Bethany and the Ministry of Women By Tina Beattie in The Month, May 1997 Women Disciples By Ann Mary Clement in Focus, 1997 Jesuits and the Situation of Women in Church and Civil Society From the 34th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, 1996 A modest proposal: a place for women in the hierarchy By Mary Douglas in Commonweal, June 14, 1996 Christology, African Women And Ministry By Laurenti Magesa, April 1996 Orphaned at Birth: Women in the Church By Liz Leibold McCloskey in Commonweal, Jan 27, 1995 Message to the Fourth U.N. Women's Conference From Mother Teresa, 1995 A “Fluttering Flock” of Messengers? Women in the New Testament By Sarah S. Henrich, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, in Word & World, Summer 1995 The Thanksgiving of Women after Childbirth, commonly called The Churching of Women By Natalie Knödel, University of Durham, April 1995 Liturgical Preaching by Women: A New Sign Language of Salvation By Sarah Ann Fairbanks in The Way, 1995 Calling the Church to Account: African Women and Liberation By Mercy Oduyoye in The Ecumenical Review, October 1995 Ignored Opportunities for Women in Canon Law By Ida Raming in Theology Digest, Fall 1995 Is Silence Golden? Paul and Women's Speech in Corinth By Caroline Vander Stichele in Louvain Studies, 1995 The Nature of Women and the Method of Theology By Mary Aquin O-Neill in Theological Studies, December 1995 Study Shows Church Is Still a Men's Club: Women's Leadership Roles Show Little Increase in Five Years By Robin T. Edwards in National Catholic Reporter, Dec 16, 1994 Strange Omission of Key Women in the Lectionary By Ruth Fox in National Catholic Reporter, May 13, 1994 CTU Women 'Quietly Push Forth a Vision' By Tim Unsworth in National Catholic Reporter, March 11, 1994 Women Bring New Dimension to Several Aspects of Ministry By Debra Nussbaum Cohen in National Catholic Reporter, Feb 11, 1994 Leadership from a Feminist Perspective By Lynn N. Rhodes in Word & World, 1993 Scholar Unearths History of Celtic Women: Women Played Roles That Today Belong to Male Priesthood By Dawn Gibeau in National Catholic Reporter, Feb 19, 1993 Women-Church: 'Adrift' from Catholicism? - Women-Church Convergence Conference By Demetria Martinez in National Catholic Reporter, April 16, 1993 Celebrating Diversity of Catholic Women: Women-Church Convergence Conference By Demetria Martinez in National Catholic Reporter, April 30, 1993 New Roles for Women in the Institutional Church By Jeanne Pieper in The Catholic Woman. Difficult Choices in a Modern World, Lowell House, Los Angeles, 1993 Women-Church: A Way to Stay While Patriarchy Wears Away By Rosemary Radford Ruether in National Catholic Reporter, August 13, 1993 Let's Start Over: A Bishop Appraises the Pastoral on Women By P. Francis Murphy, an auxiliary bishop in Baltimore and, from 1978-89, a member of the NCCB Committee on Women, in Commonweal, Sept 25, 1992 Women in the Church: Interpreting the Past, Envisaging the Future Draft paper by Megan Walker, October 1991 Celibatarian Repression of Women by Uta Ranke-Heinemann. Chapter 9 from Eunuchs for Heaven, 1990 Partners in Ministry: Men and Women By Stephanie K. Frey and Lawrence R. Wohlrabe in Word & World, 1988 Woman Seen as a 'Problem' and as 'Solution' in the Theological Anthropoloqy of the Early Fathers: Considering the Consequences By Dr.Marie-Henry Keane O.P., formerly Prof. in Systematic Theology Dept. of Univ. of South Africa, Pretoria. Paper presented to Catholic Theological Society of South Africa, October 1987 Missionaries, Apostles, Coworkers: Romans 16 and the Reconstruction of Women's Early Christian History By Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in Word & World, 1986 Women and Discipleship in the New Testament By Janet Gaden in The Way, 1986 Women in the Church: Scriptural Principles and Ecclesial Practice A Report of the Commission on Theology and Church Relations of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, September 1985 The Passion of Perpetua, Everywoman of Late Antiquity By Mary Ann Rossi in Pagan and Christian Anxiety: A Response to E.R. Dodds, University Press of America, 1985 Women and the Church Chapter 6 of What is Right with Feminism by Elaine Storkey, SPCK, 1985 Polarization: Christianity against Feminism Chapter 10 of What is Right with Feminism by Elaine Storkey, SPCK, 1985 Woman and Power By Mary Daniel Turner in The Way, 1985 Women Making Church By Benedicte du Chaffaut in The Way, 1985 Mary Ward: Women and Leadership By Joan Chittister in The Way, 1985 Women and Theology By Margaret Brennan in The Way, 1985 Women in Ministries By Veronica Brady in The Way, 1985 The Status of Women in the Code of Canon Law and in the United Nations Convention By Marie-Thérèse van Lunen Chénu and Louise Wentholt in Praxis juridique et religion, 1984 The Role of Women According to Jesus and the Early Church By Robert J. Karris, O.F.M., 1984 The Status of Women in the Code of Canon Law and in the United Nations Convention By Marie-Thérèse van Lunen Chénu and Louise Wentholt in Praxis juridique et religion, 1984 Women in the New Code By Rose McDermott in The Way, 1984 The Role of Women in Early Christianity Book by Jean LaPorte, Edwin Mellen Press, 1982 The Role of Women in the Church: The Pauline Perspective By John E. Toews in Direction, January 1980 Women and Ministry in the New Testament Book by Elisabeth M Tetlow, Paulist Press, 1980 Woman in the Church Book by Louis Bouyer, Ignatius Press, 1979 Women in the Life of the Church By Elizabeth Carroll, 1977 Women in the Life of the Church By Elizabeth Carroll in Women Priests, Paulist Press 1977 Women in Vatican Documents 1960 to the Present By Nadine Foley, O.P. in Sexism and Church Law, Paulist Press, 1977 Full Participation of Women in the Life of the Catholic Church By Edward J Kilmartin, S.J., in Sexism and Church Law, Paulist Press, 1977 Hermeneutics and Women in the Church By Grant R. Osborne in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 1977 Women in the Early Church: A Problem of Perspective By Lloyd G. Patterson, 1976 Women Ministers in the New Testament Church? By C. E. Cerling, Jr., doctoral candidate at Aquinas Institute of Theology, Dubuque, IA, in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 1976 Male Clericalism and the Dread of Women By Rosemary Radford Ruether, 1974 Women in Ministry: A Sisters' View From National Assembly of Women Religious, Chicago, 1972 Woman in a Man's Church Book by Arlene Swidler published by Paulist Press, 1972 Is There Room for Women in the Functions of the Church? By Jan Peters, O.C.D. Smakt-Venray, Netherlands, in Concilium - Theology in the Age of Renewal, 1968 Women Ministers in the Catholic Church? by René van Eyden in Sisters Today, December 1968 Woman and the Council: Hopes and Expectations Dr. Gertrud Heinzelmann, Attorney-at-Law, Zürich, in Wir schweigen nicht länger! (We Won't Keep Silence Any Longer!), Interfeminas-Verlag, 1964. A petition addressed to the Pre- paratory Commission of Vatican Council II concerning the place of woman in the Roman Catholic Church Women and the Church By Mary F. Daly, S.T.L., in Commonweal, February 14, 1964 Catholic Women and the Modern Era By Mary F. Daly, S.T.L. in Wir schweigen nicht länger! (We Won't Keep Silence Any Longer!), Interfeminas-Verlag, 1964 Resolutions passed at its conventions in Freiburg 1963 and Antwerp 1964 By the St. Joan's International Alliance, published in Wir schweigen nicht länger! (We Won't Keep Silence Any Longer!), Interfeminas-Verlag, 1964 Women and the Church By Rosemary Lauer, Ph. D., in Commonweal, December 20, 1963 Ethics and Feminism: Attitudes Towards Women in the Church By Yuri Josef Koszarycz, Senior Lecturer in Religion Studies, Department of Theology, Australian Catholic University (McAuley Campus, Brisbane) Gender and Theology in Africa today By Mercy Amba Oduyoye on the website of The Circle of Concerned African Woman Theologians Women's Role in the Church By Pat Pinsent on "Catholics for a Changing Church" Two Sermons on Wives and Widows By St. Bernardino of Siena, preached in the great public square of his native Siena during August and September of the year 1427 The Production of the Woman By Saint Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologica Statements on Women By Church Fathers, Doctors, and Saints MISCELLANEOUS WEBSITES Sisters Between: Gender and the Medieval Beguines By Abby Stoner. The Beguines of northern Europe have been called the first women's movement in Christian history. This group of religiously dedicated laywomen, who took no permanent vows, followed no prescribed rule, supported themselves by manual labor, interacted with the "world," and remained celibate, flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries--a time when the Church had defined two legitimate roles for pious women: cloistered nun and keeper at home Women Give Life to the Church From the Forum of European Christians Catholic Perspective on Women in Society and in the Church A couple of dozen items, many quotes from Pope John Paul II, on the Christian vision, women in society, women in the life of the Church, and St. Augustine on women A litany of women for the church From the Benedictine Sisters of Erie Women And The Australian Church An organization that seeks to provide a forum for those searching and longing for an inclusive church. See especially the articles on the RESOURCES page Ministry in Context: The Feminine Principle Panel Presentation to Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart Female Ministry; or, Woman's Right to Preach the Gospel Pamphlet by Catherine Mumford Booth published in London in 1859 The Doves Kinswoman Reflections by Jim McKay on the biblical foundations for women's ministry in the church The St. Nina Quarterly A publication dedicated to exploring the ministry of women in the Orthodox Church and to cultivating a deeper understanding of ministry in the lives of all Orthodox Christian women and men Women-Church Convergence A coalition of autonomous Catholic-rooted organizations/groups raising a feminist voice and committed to an ekklesia of women which is participative, egalitarian and self-governing The Circle of Concerned African Woman Theologians Catholic Network for Women's Equality Since 1980, CNWE has offered a vision of church that is renewing and open to all!
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