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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 Simple Lives: A NewBeginning 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 The question of governance and ministry for women By Phyllis Zagano in Theological Studies, June 2007 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 Kindom 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 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 Question of Women in Church Tradition, The 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 "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, Jan, 2001 African Women in the Church as the Family of God By Emmanuel Barbara in African Christian Studies, Vol. 17, n. 1, March 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 John Paul II's Ut Unum Sint And Conversation With Women By Sally M. Vance-Trembath in Theological Studies, March 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Role of Women in the Church: The Pauline Perspective By John E. Toews in Direction, January 1980 Women in the Life of the Church By Elizabeth Carroll, 1977 Women in the Early Church: A Problem of Perspective By Lloyd G. Patterson, 1976 Male Clericalism and the Dread of Women By Rosemary Radford Ruether, 1974 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 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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