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Popes and Feminsts

Author : Elise Crapuchettes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 194764405X

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Popes and Feminsts by Elise Crapuchettes Pdf

"Before the Reformation, in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church, being a wife or mother was not a holy vocation. The only "spiritual" calling for women was to be found in a convent. The Reformers confronted the bad theology which led to this (and other worse abuses, like priest-patronized brothels) and returned to the Bible to develop a theology of vocation that began to free Christians to be "holy" no matter their occupation. But today, modern feminist claims about vocation have more in common with the pre-Reformation popes than anything else -- except feminists have replaced the nunnery with the hallowed corporate workplace. Christian women wondering about their place in society and comparing feminism with the Bible should start with the teaching of the Reformers and the lives of many exceptional women of the Reformation. Part history and part contemporary reflection, Popes and Feminists argues that women today have some of the same choices facing them as women in the sixteenth century. In this fascinating study, Elise Crapuchettes shows how the Reformation changed the lives of Christian women as it turned them away from trying to earn their salvation and toward a joyful, liberating view of vocation and work"--Page 4 of cover.

Wojtyła's Women

Author : Ted Lipien
Publisher : Circle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1846941105

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John Paul II, the most charismatic and influential Pope in centuries, reshaped many facets of Catholic thought. Yet Church policy on women during his papacy remained deeply resistant to popular modern ideas on gender roles. Wojtyla's Women explores John Paul II's views on women, marriage, family and sexual ethics from both feminist and conservative Christian perspectives

Catholic and Feminist

Author : Mary J. Henold
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469606668

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Catholic and Feminist by Mary J. Henold Pdf

In 1963, as Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique appeared and civil rights activists marched on Washington, a separate but related social movement emerged among American Catholics, says Mary Henold. Thousands of Catholic feminists--both lay women and women religious--marched, strategized, theologized, and prayed together, building sisterhood and confronting sexism in the Roman Catholic Church. In the first history of American Catholic feminism, Henold explores the movement from the 1960s through the early 1980s, showing that although Catholic feminists had much in common with their sisters in the larger American feminist movement, Catholic feminism was distinct and had not been simply imported from outside. Catholic feminism grew from within the church, rooted in women's own experiences of Catholicism and religious practice, Henold argues. She identifies the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), an inspiring but overtly sexist event that enraged and exhilarated Catholic women in equal measure, as a catalyst of the movement within the church. Catholic feminists regularly explained their feminism in terms of their commitment to a gospel mandate for social justice, liberation, and radical equality. They considered feminism to be a Christian principle. Yet as Catholic feminists confronted sexism in the church and the world, Henold explains, they struggled to integrate the two parts of their self-definition. Both Catholic culture and feminist culture indicated that such a conjunction was unlikely, if not impossible. Henold demonstrates that efforts to reconcile faith and feminism reveal both the complex nature of feminist consciousness and the creative potential of religious feminism.

The Vatican's Women

Author : Paul Hofmann
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1429975474

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Four hundred of the 3,800 people who permanently live or work in the State of Vatican City, the smallest sovereign and independent state on the globe, are women. They are nuns and members of the laity; some are housekeepers of churchmen; others are secretaries, translators, editors, lawyers, and middle-level officials of the papal administration. Expansive in scope and enlightening in detail, The Vatican's Women recalls women who wielded power in the Vatican, including St. Catherine of Siena, Queen Christina of Sweden, Mother Pascalina (Pope Pius XII's longtime housekeeper and confidante), and Mother Teresa. With an unflinching eye, Paul Hofmann examines the papacy's reaction to Catholic women's (and nuns') liberation, and women's struggles, especially today, to fortify their positions within the Church. The Vatican's Women is a thorough and revealing exploration that will herald a new level of insight and dialogue amongst feminists, theologians, and laypeople alike.

Mary Magdalene Revealed

Author : Meggan Watterson
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781401954284

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--WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER-- The Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals a very different love story from the one we've come to refer to as Christianity. Harvard-trained theologian Meggan Watterson leads us verse by verse through Mary's gospel to illuminate the powerful teachings it contains. A gospel, as ancient and authentic as any of the gospels that the Christian bible contains, was buried deep in the Egyptian desert after an edict was sent out in the 4th century to have all copies of it destroyed. Fortunately, some rebel monks were wise enough to refuse-and thanks to their disobedience and spiritual bravery, we have several manuscripts of the only gospel that was written in the name of a woman: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Mary's gospel reveals a radical love that sits at the heart of the Christian story. Her gospel says that we are not sinful; we are not to feel ashamed or unworthy for being human. In fact, our purpose is to be fully human, to be a "true human being"- that is, a person who has remembered that, yes, we are a messy, limited ego, and we are also a limitless soul. And all we need to do is to turn inward (again and again); to meditate, like Mary Magdalene, in the way her gospel directs us, so that we can see past the ego of our own little lives to what's more real, and lasting, and infinite, and already here, within. With searing clarity, Watterson explains how and why Mary Magdalene came to be portrayed as the penitent prostitute and relates a more historically and theologically accurate depiction of who Mary was within the early Christ movement. And she shares how this discovery of Mary's gospel has allowed her to practice, and to experience, a love that never ends, a love that transforms everything.

Sex and the Catholic Feminist

Author : Sue Ellen Browder
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781642291254

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Sex and the Catholic Feminist by Sue Ellen Browder Pdf

In Sex and the Catholic Feminist, Browder challenges the notion that you can't be a feminist and believe in God. She echoes John Paul II's call for Catholics to embody a "new feminism," a radical new view of women's dignity. Her goal in this book is to "follow one golden thread of feminism in America—the pro-life thread—to show why it has been ignored by the media and left out of public conversation for fifty years." For Browder, the pro-life movement is about more than abortion and contraception; it's about loving and respecting all human life. While tracing the history of feminism in America, Browder discovered at the core of these various feminist movements a search for personhood. Where do women place their identity and find their fulfillment? Browder ultimately concludes that in our noisy, consumerist society, placing one's identity anywhere other than in God will prove disappointing and unfulfilling. "My hope is that some thoughts presented here will spark a new conversation and help heal one of the deepest political divisions in our nation." — Sue Ellen Browder

Mary Ward: First Sister of Feminism

Author : Sydney Thorne
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399005241

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Mary Ward: First Sister of Feminism by Sydney Thorne Pdf

The little-known story of the woman who walked 1,500 miles to Rome to challenge the pope in 1621. Four centuries ago, an Englishwoman completed an astonishing walk to Rome. A Catholic, Mary Ward had already defied the authorities in her native country. In 1621 she walked across Europe to ask the Pope to allow her to set up schools for girls. “There is no such difference between men and women that women may not do great things,” she said. But Mary’s vision of equality between men and women angered the Church, and the pope threw her into prison. Her story is not only fascinating in its own right—it also shines a refreshingly new light on the Tudor/Stuart era. Mary’s uncles are the Gunpowder Plotters. Her sponsors are archdukes, prince-archbishops, and the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. In Rome she spars with Pope Urban VIII and the Roman Inquisition, just as they are also dealing with the troublemaker Galileo. As the story sweeps from Yorkshire to Rome, from Vienna and Munich to Prague, and back to England, we see Mary dodging pirates in the Channel, witch hunts in Germany, and the plague in Italy. We see travelers crossing the Alps, and prisoners smuggling out letters written in invisible lemon juice. Ranging from the resplendent courts in Brussels and Munich to the siege of York in the English Civil War, this biography is a remarkable portrait of seventeenth-century European life.

Edith Stein Essays on Woman

Author : Edith Stein
Publisher : ICS Publications
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781939272010

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To help celebrate the fourth centenary of the birth of St. John of the Cross in 1542, Edith Stein received the task of preparing a study of his writings. She uses her skill as a philosopher to enter into an illuminating reflection on the difference between the two symbols of cross and night. Pointing out how entering the night is synonymous with carrying the cross, she provides a condensed presentation of John's thought on the active and passive nights, as discussed in The Ascent of Mount Carmel and The Dark Night. All of this leads Edith to speak of the glory of resurrection that the soul shares, through a unitive contemplation described chiefly in The Living Flame of Love. In the summer of 1942, the Nazis without warrant took Edith away. The nuns found the manuscript of this profound study lying open in her room. Because of the Nazis' merciless persecution of Jews in Germany, Edith Stein traveled discreetly across the border into Holland to find safe harbor in the Carmel of Echt. But the Nazi invasion of Holland in 1940 again put Edith in danger. The cross weighed down heavily as those of Jewish birth were harassed. Sr. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross's superiors then assigned her a task they thought would take her mind off the threatening situation. The fourth centenary of the birth, of St. John of the Cross (1542) was approaching, and Edith could surely contribute a valuable study for the celebration. It is no surprise that in view of her circumstances she discovered in the subject of the cross a central viewpoint for her study. A subject like this enabled her to grasp John's unity of being as expressed in his life and works. Using her training in phenomenology, she helps the reader apprehend the difference in the symbolic character of cross and night and why the night-symbol prevails in John. She clarifies that detachment is designated by him as a night through which the soul must pass to reach union with God and points out how entering the night is equivalent to carrying the cross. Finally, in a fascinating way Edith speaks of how the heart or fountainhead of personal life, an inmost region, is present in both God and the soul and that in the spiritual marriage this inmost region is surrendered by each to the other. She observes that in the soul seized by God in contemplation all that is mortal is consumed in the fire of eternal love. The spirit as spirit is destined for immortal being, to move through fire along a path from the cross of Christ to the glory of his resurrection. Book includes two photos and fully linked index.

Pope John Paul II on the Genius of Women

Author : Pope John Paul II,Catholic Church. Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II)
Publisher : USCCB Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574551132

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Pope John Paul II on the Genius of Women by Pope John Paul II,Catholic Church. Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II) Pdf

This compendium includes major statements from Pope John Paul II to and about women. A bibliography is included.

Feminist Ethics and the Catholic Moral Tradition

Author : Charles E. Curran,Margaret A. Farley,Richard A. McCormick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015041929764

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Feminist Ethics and the Catholic Moral Tradition by Charles E. Curran,Margaret A. Farley,Richard A. McCormick Pdf

Three of the most eminent Catholic moral theologians in this country have gathered together in one volume a valuable collection of 25 of the most important articles in th field of feminist ethics and the Catholic moral tradition.

Pure Lust

Author : Mary Daly
Publisher : Women's Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 0704339358

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This title aims to offer a journey into the interior of language. The author reveals the patriarchal construction of language and religious imagery, offering alternatives.

The Abolition of Woman

Author : Fiorella Nash
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781642290462

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The Abolition of Woman by Fiorella Nash Pdf

For the great majority on both sides of the abortion debate, the idea of a pro-life feminist is the ultimate contradiction in terms. Abortion has become so central to feminist thinking that women who affirm their belief in both women's empowerment and the inalienable right to life can find themselves viewed with suspicion and hostility from both sides. Yet the author of this book is indeed a pro-life feminist, and her insightful analysis of contemporary issues can provide the basis for common ground between those defending human rights. This book unashamedly calls mainstream feminists, journalists and Western politicians to account for their silence and – in some cases – vocal justification of the persecution of women because of an absolutist loyalty to abortion. It asks uncomfortable questions to those who claim to believe in women's empowerment: Where is their passionate outrage when Chinese women are forcibly aborted and sterilised? Where is their concern for the thousands of baby girls killed by abortion every year because their lives are held as worthless simply for being female? What about the thousands of women used as surrogates for wealthy Western couples, treated as chattels and denied their most basic human rights? But the book also tackles difficult issues for the pro-life side—the need for a sensitive, realistic approach to problematic pregnancies and the importance of confronting the continued exploitation and abuse of women within a sexualised society. Pro-life feminism is not only possible; it is vital if the complex struggles facing women are to be adequately met. The Abolition of Woman is a rallying cry to feminists to stand with the pro-life movement, fighting to build a society in which women are equal and every human life is protected.

On the Dignity and Vocation of Women

Author : Catholic Church. Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II),Pope John Paul II
Publisher : Hunter Publishing (NJ)
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Feminism
ISBN : PSU:000058411612

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On the Dignity and Vocation of Women by Catholic Church. Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II),Pope John Paul II Pdf

Cover title. Translation of: Mulieris dignitatem. "August 15, 1988." Includes bibliographical references.

Women of the Vatican

Author : Lynda Telford
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781445686240

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Women of the Vatican by Lynda Telford Pdf

A revealing history of women who were a power behind the papal throne. Engaging, controversial and sometimes illuminating.

Conscience and Calling

Author : Anne E. Patrick
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441144522

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Conscience and Calling by Anne E. Patrick Pdf

"This volume probes the meaning and ethical implications of the powerful symbol of vocation in a transformed social context. Patrick analyzes the complex responses of Catholic women to injustice and describes a post-Vatican II shift in understandings of virtue, with particular attention to the experiences of U.S. sisters and laywomen. Intended as a follow-up to Liberating Conscience: Feminist Explorations in Catholic Moral Theology ..."--P. [4] of cover.