Women's Place in Church

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Vat II

• declerized liturgical functions
• reconnected with social services

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women at the “grassroots”

“I grew up in the church from childhood and my experience has been that fathers and young men have an upper seat in the church. Men were handling the affairs of the church. They were the ones taking decisions on everything taking place, on behalf of everybody... I feel like I have arrived where I longed to be and I feel counted in God’s kingdom.” Thandi

women's ministry is considered secondary, a supplement to ordained priesthood (LaCugna 1992)

magisterial teaching ... womanhood understood in maternal and subordinate terms, (Ross)

Are women persons in the same way that men are persons?

women will experience some degree of ...

We as women are standing up together, we have arrived,
we have come of age,
we are fully human, fully called,
fully committed to living out that call, to serving together with all who serve to bring in the reign of God.

channels of dialogue
(Catholic Women Speak: Beattie)

Maria 2.0

WATER

multigenerational mentorship (Hinsdale)

Feminism: equality

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• critique Catholicism
• critique feminism
• alternate nourishment