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statement on women and ordination two come in the next papacy (if not this one) Correspondence years ago. Never was...
...Despite the sloppy to ordination...
...As a report I think she The Iconoclast bad company like those uppity feminists would find it markedly similar to that of Smash the plaster who just want to use you...
...statement on women and ordination two come in the next papacy (if not this one) Correspondence years ago...
...I think timore [Dec...
...Men in workshop on Feminist Theological of having to have a male priest offer the power are men in power and are easily Perspectives on Religion, Sexuality and Eucharist...
...8, "Sanity and Sister more...
...I knew in' my Marvin, S.D...
...Microfilm from Vol., 1, 1924, to current issues available_ tji ough Upiversity Micsubjects treated in its pages...
...Years ago I wrote this verse in my your place at Mass," ``Don't show disre- hat-understandable since the editors did reaction to the plaster statuary in our spect to Father," "Watch your lannot have an article-sized space to give to churches: guage," and "above all, stay away from the conference...
...Shades of other female journalists (to use her ter- Statue and the convent school...
...The women at the St...
...The Prematurely Saved" [Dec...
...Letters of noted, other examples of this lack of rofilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Mi...
...It was great...
...The Saint from ent, sure of themselves, committed to The objection of the press was not to the His pink enameled each other's peace, freedom and justice lack of gentility-although I admit to a prison...
...John's University awakened by the Vatican, was one of the ABIGAIL'McCARTHY in Douglaston, NY...
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...I was probably most radically speaker cited to express,;her ideas in terms the press could translate for the Commonweal is indexed in Readers Guide to awakened as a feminist by the Vatican average reader-all of which made their Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, task difficult...
...I am close to Abigail's generation: 52, honesty and the unwillingness of the (REV...
...JOAN SEXTON They have impressed me as Jesus the But reading Abigail, I heard Sister Say: Madison Avenue Adman dispensing "Don't raise your voices," "Be polite to Reply what Bonhoeffer called "cheap grace" your elders," "Don't offend your I am afraid Mrs...
...There were, as I Review Digest...
...Serials Data Program No.: ISSN 0010-3330...
...Even Sister to say if I did, to those who praised these dained women from the Presbyterian and liked it...
...jargon, the rudeness to the male press, ments and political wars I was unsurprisLast summer I attended a week-long couldn't she understand the discomfort ed by the Vatican statement...
...It assuming leadership would eschew the Brooklyn, N. Y. is the Vatican that has made ordination a techniques of control devised by men, To the Editors: Anticipating a treat in sexist issue, not women...
...As a serious feminist, howO1 liturgy of her own under the delusion that it considered me ever, it has been my hope that women as much a child of God as my brothers...
...For the record I have openly supported Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...Work sponsored by St...
...The group attending was a great So we had a liturgy of our own and we This article articulates what I felt and mixture of nuns, married women, young were free to be ourselves and praise a tttd'not know Why, nor have the Courage theology students, social workers, or- loving God...
...such as obscurantist jargon designed to reading Abigail McCarthy's report of the I'm surprised Abigail did not hear, or exclude the uninitiated and pre-planned Women's Ordination Conference in Bal- pay attention to the real issues at Balti"spontaneous" demonstrations...
...Couldn't she feel the injustice that my report gave ample testimony to the Says...
...Commonweal: 98...
...I heard many of the first to ask for a liturgy of our own last same women who spoke in Baltimore summer, and I did not have to be (Sheila Collins, Sister Elizabeth Carroll, Put that in your hype "politicized" by an activist who wanted Elizabeth Fiorenza, and more...
...But change will come...
...thrilled with the maturity, selfgut that I was being untrue to my wom- To the Editors: I want to write and thank knowledge, intelligence, articulateness, anhood.and to Christ to silently agree that you for the article by John Garvey, scholarship and self-assurance of these only a male priest could celebrate Mass...
...TV evangelists to me...
...have a better chance of being published...
...Sexton confuses my with all the advertising world's skill at guests, especially the press," "Stay in reporter's hat with my columnist's hype...
...PAUL McHARNESS, O.S.B...
...Catholic-educated, wife, mother, Christian...
...speaking-but to the lack of openness, make me feel this way again...
...not more than 250 or 300 words naturally openness...
...women's ordination and think that it will Copyright © 1978 CouamotzMreal' Publishing Co...
...Even I, recently and rudely threatened...
...As a veteran of lay movethe Conference...
...to be lured by some seductive "outpersonal bias in favor of that, generally The slick TV evangelistic programs sider...
...I heard has been done, the insult delivered, and spirit of sisterhood present at Baltimore much more of "Sister Says" from the vital necessity for Christian women to and to the quality of the women aspiring Abigail than from what she quoted from demand recognition...
...minology) including, for example., the Release John's workshop were far too independone for the National Catholic Reporter...
...I was disappointed...
...Episcopal Churches...
...Never was I so painfully both if we are to survive as a sacramental aware of how little my church thinks of church and because women are, called as me, having spent many, many years well as men...
...It was, parenthetically, a Index of American Periodical Verse, and Book Commonweal welcomes letters on friendly press, too...
...I was to use me for her own ends...
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