New Catholic Women
Hendy, Valerie
emergence of such important phenomena Out, of place in the...
...tion...
...This is an understanding both denying the administration a serious mili- Symposium Democratic politicians and a still too au- tary option has at least given Congress tocratic church structure desperately Education and Ideology Symposium...
...As I read of lows that while feminist thinkers, women American Catholic church can continue to the struggle against the patriarchy, I' like Rosemary Ruether and Anne Carr, rely on us in this way is questionable, not realized how little has been gained since are hardly in the mainstream of the Catho- because the church has changed, but be- the days when The Catholic Encyclopedia lic power structure, they are the leaders in cause we are changing," Dr...
...She quotes Rosemary Radford Ruether NEW CATHOLIC WOMEN the church because they can not endure on the significance of Womanchurch: A CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGE TO the misogynistic atmosphere and'see no "This means women engaged in liberaTRADITIONAL RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY reason to hope for improvement in the tion from patriarchy declare this commufuture...
...No new ground is broken here and readers of Catholic and secular TO OUR READERS: newspapers are not in for any surprises...
...Nonetheless, generation of Catholic women who came given the existing U.S...
...Cambridge in 1895, "The Study of History...
...As long as Catholics cannot have tober 23-25, 1986...
...She finds a Mary Daly, Carr, Ruether, and Elisabeth institution that finds them, essentially, in- link between the biblical and cultural roots Schiissler Fiorenza...
...Requirements: Masters in Religious woman the particularly intimate burden The worst fate that can befall Central Education and/or Theology...
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...Perhaps these are questions New Catholic Women is a fine histori- Creative, politically sophisticated, these for a later study, but I was curious about cal survey that charts the efforts of women are fighting for their right to as- what makes these groups work...
...However, this new breed of Cath- of sexism and modem Catholicism in a briefly, at evolving Catholic feminist olic women, while angered by pa- nineteenth-century entry in The Catholic spirituality, from Saints Teresa and triarchal exclusivity, has not been suc- Encyclopedia about "Women" that says: Catherine of Siena to the God/ess movecessful in breaking into the old boys' net- .. The female sex, is in some respects ment...
...demonstrate Acton's lifelong devotion to the study of For the gift of such faith-filled scholar- history...
...Most of these women are under nity of women's liberation to be theologMary Jo Weaver the age of forty...
...But ships...
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...Administrative difficulties in finding a compelling ar- - and the logic of the policy it embodies position to assist all facets of parish edugument for the recognition of fetuses as should be reversed...
...Commonweal: 444 Finally, it's no small commentary on the state of the economics profession that the economic insights expressed in the article come from someone outside of the LibertyPress profession...
...It is a scholarly look at Catholic women who are determined not to let patriarchy flow into the next century - impoverishing the church and imprisoning half its members in sub- NOTICE membership...
...Letters of not more than Ethics and research professor of ethics cyclopaedia Britannica, free with SSAE to 250 or 300 words naturally have a better and international politics at the School Church of Ouzo, PO Box 46666, Cincinchance of being published...
...ALFONS BELL Sidney Callahan's article, "Abortion & ogy and is not the thorough trinitarian the Sexual Agenda," received three re-undergirding the writers attempt...
...Dr...
...Chester Finn vs...
...T108 port, the national government to be the Indianapolis, IN 46250 agent best able to assume duties imposed by rights claims...
...The contra vote is a serious mistake, but Employment Opportunity To the Editors: Joan C. Callahan ["The Fetus & Fundamental Rights," April 11 ] it is not the final word on U.S...
...claim the Roman tradition as their own...
...In view Caper...
...Have they lost way, beginning, perhaps, in the late faith...
...A true trinitarian political theology Covington, Ky...
...NANCY MAXFIELD would elucidate how "perichoresis," To the Editors: It was a point of interest each loving person so self-giving as to be to me that the June 6 readers' discussion, Classified inside the other, is the model for all rela- "Abortion, Pluralism, Feminism," contionships, and how...
...One might imagine such a years, to work for change within the But interim is not good enough for book would read like a latter-day mar- church and to formulate role models that many of us...
...Weaver leaves the impression that humiliated by "investigations" services director of Michigan or be sev- there is some cause for optimism for an spearheaded by the hierarchy, these ered from her thirty-three-year relation- integrated and equitable church...
...body and soul...
...Church/world watch...
...While the patriarchy remains dominant enter Catholic academia as a way of es- The American church, particularly on the over the institution, there is nothing men parish level, has always relied on female can do to women who work at an easel or a volunteers to keep everything from the typewriter...
...Pre- IUP, Indiana, PA 15705: (412) 357-2227...
...Herbert of inter-independent small groups is fully Gintis and Kevin Ryan vs...
...American Dreams: members of Congress claim that the, con- The National Debate About the Future of their human rights accepted and re- tra aid, now almost assured, will focus spected in their own church, the church, attention on the administration's diplo- Education" Conservatives, liberals and radicals debate the relationship of Ameriitself is denying its own trinitarian theol- macy...
...Minorrevealed to what lengths the pa- ity leader in the Arizona state legislature triarchal church will protect itself before it when she died in an automobile accident will consider women...
...Weaver fails to do is explain young ward's defiant choice of a In spite of the marginal status of how Womanchurch developed, describe husband in Moliere's The School for women in the church, Dr...
...She al- have found this fulfilling...
...Paul's Church, 241 S. Main It seems to me that there is a general yond the point where policy-makers on St., North Canton, Ohio 44720...
...Russell Kirk vs...
...DAVID GARRISON is writing a dissertation For those unfamiliar with the players, the present Mulroney government is on the process of Keats and Coleridge...
...Weaver says, "is a gift as well as a burden...
...PASCHAL BAUTE neither peace nor reconciliation...
...Weaver introduces the women who doing its best to achieve this end without VALERIE HENDY is a publicist in New York are "re-imaging" a church that counts having to integrate its efforts with those City...
...But fewer and fewer women making a difference, this book left me tablishing a place in the church...
...Callahan...
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...Forgotten Partners," May 23...
...Whether the with a terrible sense of loss...
...Canadians at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut...
...stood to mean "not in our lifetime...
...Weaver only touches on the Weaver writes eloquently about the But the book is not only a chronicle of persecution...
...REV...
...Crosstones...
...priests as long as they stay out of the among the marginalized . . . " I would The protectionist sentiments in the catechism class and CYO gatherings...
...equality there...
...ing novels and essays, painting, dancing, In lieu of real power, Dr...
...A recent article in The New York Times also mentions Sister Clare Dunn...
...trust, and respect between persons...
...edges early in the book that a growing number of Catholic women are leaving 15 August 1986: 443 philosophers, theologians, nuns, sisters, Dr...
...Interim is commonly undertyrology, with feminists served up as the sustain and inspire them...
...To the contrary, it will put diplo- can education to American democracy...
...monthly in advance for more the nearest and smallest level of govern- than three times...
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...The consequences, Roxanne Bradshaw vs...
...want to waste another instant of energy on Events like the Women's Ordination Con- Dr...
...Primary emphasis -Adult Educapersons that could justify imposing on a tions in Nicaragua can also be rescued...
...levels...
...It is theme of the essays collected in the first volume of this edition, Essays in the History of Liberty...
...Bryan Hehir is senior research "The Ouzo Prophecy," unpublishable Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects scholar at the Kennedy Institute of worldwide, but forcing the revision of Entreated in its pages...
...Have they joined have joined together to worship in this Valerie Heady other denominations...
...Weaver finds strains of backlash fers commentary on the theological and and laywomen, feminists all, who are try- against feminism going back to immi- philosophical works of (former Catholic) ing to make women more visible in an grant days in the United States...
...Classified payable the neighborhood, the local community, with order...
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...The direction of events in Central affirmed...
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...turf have excluded self-giving love, policy will now...
...Convinced that we live in a time of Our new address is: "increasing repression against women in Commonweal the church," Dr...
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...Experience American policy would be a growing necessary...
...When it came to pursuing Original...
...Abbie Hoffman on Activism...
...I wish I feminists continue to hang on...
...Modern/ without attention to the Catholic social Nicaragua...
...social action...
...contradict the Gospel...
...She of- south of the border...
...rights and concepts of justice, as a pri- We pay book rate postage on prepaid orders...
...policy in Biblical Meditation Songs...
...We have been grateful for a more rigorous United States conjure up memories of the are scraping the bottom of the clerical examination of the changes women have Great Depression and the obstacles to barrel here...
...defect in our Catholic manner of arguing all sides can reconsider and reverse the too statically where it is necessary to dangerous drift...
...I do not a movement that is gathering momentum...
...I suggest that this is an 15 August 1986: 445 unwarranted jump to an implicit Unitar- argue more dynamically and evolutionar- C. Callahan, and all were from men...
...Weaver reaffirmed women's inferiority...
...ley Chisholm...
...Director of Religious Education for 2000 argued that "there are insurmountable The effects of the vote can be restrained family suburban parish...
...The author believed it...
...It work with children...
...Weaver has no formulas for reconciling patriarchy and 15 Dutch Street feminism...
...ship with the Sisters of Mercy...
...Many Catholic women women have gone...
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...68¢, three begin in smaller units first: the family, Fetus & Fundamental Rights," by Joan times...
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...Weaver chronicles their at- place in a parish, these new communities church, and yet are still striving for tempts, particularly over the last twenty may provide an interim solution...
...She also looks, too visible...
...Weaver, a professor of religious studies at Indiana University, acknowl- Thank you...
...For of that bleak truth, the temptation is Information: American Dreams Symstrong to resign ourselves, to believe that posium, School of Continuing Education, Intimate burdens events must simply run their course...
...Weaver finds its power structure, or talk about how Wives, "This is what comes of teaching some women have chosen to stay and worship in these groups is balanced with women to read...
...Where two or three are Special Events: The San Francisco Mime America cannot be ignored: it points to gathered in my name, there am I in their Troupe performs "The Mozamgola midst...
...made in their lives as a result of having worldwide recovery which barriers to inBut these problems are nothing new...
...administration, to maturity during the Vietnam War and free trade between Canada and the REVIEWERS civil rights struggles of the 1960s, these United States can only result in an atLEON V. SIGAL, the author of Nuclear Forces factors have shaped our consciousness of tempt to extend the assault on the system in Europe (Brookings), teaches government ourselves as women more powerfully than of social security northward...
...Acton's concept of liberty was the unifying ship there is no equitable gratitude...
...ian "God on .the throne" political theol- ily...
...school systems to the sacristy laundries in Despite its focus on how women are operation...
...political minis- should serve to remind your readers that priests, who are sexually attracted to chil- try, especially, is a pertinent question as every time the United States sneezes, dren, should be permitted to function as nuns understand religious life as living Canada catches a cold...
...any ecclesiastical events...
...I wish she had broadened her survey work which dictates the power structure of inferior to the male sex, both as regards to include Catholic women who are writ- . the Roman Catholic church...
...this activity must tained nine responses to the article, "The RATES: 75¢ a word, one time...
...To order, or for a agent for satisfying claims delineated by copy of our catalogue, write: rights must be the national government...
...Ocgrounds to press for diplomacy...
...Cassettes I do not understand how a "trinitar- (Continued from page 425) ian" political theology can be discussed tary option will drive U.S...
...Church-state rela- cation...
...She admits Catholic women's 5th floor indebtedness to the theology of Vatican II and the creative action of the secular New York, NY 10038 women's movement...
...obstacle to overcome in ourselves and the Writing on such diverse topics as the divorce of faithful is the prevalent wrongheaded Henry VIII, Leopold von Ranke, and the History of the Papacy, Acton argued that history should be view of Christian faith being concerned impartial, based on archival research, and founded in with private and personal matters only, moral judgment...
...ing with it responsibilities and therefore 581 + xxvi pages...
...emergence of such important phenomena Out, of place in the parish as Womanchurch an example of women operating outside the patriarchy...
...priests suggested that priests suffering Noting that renewal for many sisters (Continued from page 418) from this problem never be allowed to has meant an assault on social sin, Dr...
...But for the uninitiated, this text offers a comprehensive look at the struggle Commonweal has moved its editorial, advertiswomen who identify themselves as ing, and subscription service operations...
...The logic of Featured debates: Phyllis Schlafly vs...
...Weaver ex- Of course some Catholic women have and composing their vision of women...
...be to give "the pres- Eleanor Smeal...
...For feminists who have, in a sense, been sume full membership in their own women like me, who feel utterly out of "taught to read" in the Roman Catholic church...
...A speaker at a in 1981, Dunn's fellow legislators Correspondence church-sponsored conference on the eulogized her as "the conscience of the i growing incidence of child molestation by House and a champion of the poor...
...In other words, male Weaver writes that...
...Stanley Perhaps the full energy of the Spirit short- and long-term, may be far more Aronowitz, former Congressperson, Shirwill be released only when the synergism tragic than we currently imagine...
...I would have appreciated ically church, that is to say, a community Harper & Row, $18.95, 213 pp...
...quickly in assuming that the primary All orders from outside the United States must be prepaid in U.S...
...A jump too quick The volume concludes with Acton's famous Inaugural Lecture as Regius Professor of Modern History at Lexington, Ky...
...have nothing to be proud of in this regard...
...Henry Giroux...
...Or have they remained, simply, 1960s...
...Edited by J. Rufus Fears It is written with the unction found in the Fathers, the insight of the mystics, his second volume of the LibertyClassics edition the clarity of a contemporary scholastic, of The Selected Writings of Lord Acton brings and the urbanity of mature American together lectures, articles, and reviews which scholars...
...HUGH GRANT LibertyClassics Noting a breakthrough SELECTED WRITINGS OF Southampton, N. Y LORD ACTON To the Editors: The Himes brothers essay ["Rights, Economics, & the Trin- VOLUME II ity," March 14], on the doctrine of the ESSAYS IN THE STUDY AND Trinity as the foundation of a political WRITING "OF HISTORY theology relevant to the economics pastoral, has all the marks of a break- By John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton through...
...640, six times...
...sure" time to work...
...Heidelberg cisely the opposite attitude is needed...
...IIA LAS," cried Arnolphe, at his unchurched Catholics...
...Biographical Note, Essays in This rights...
...Box firms the urgent significance of relation- diplomatic openings, the rhetoric has al- 884002, Walled Lake, MI 48088...
...ways been stronger than the reality...
...Weaver documents cases of "offi- anger, yet one can not read about the inference meetings in Baltimore and Detroit cial repression" like that against Agnes sults women continued to endure in the have not escaped the notice of the Mary Mansour, who was given an ul- church and not be outraged...
...in this the answer to Archbishop Weakland's volume may be found the historical studies upon comment to the priests of the diocese which Acton drew to explicate his understanding of here on Long Island that the principal the idea of liberty...
...Please mary means...
...In her survey, church's hierarchy...
...To the Editors: In re-reading "Rights, These two volumes, edited by J. Rufus Fears, Economics, & The Trinity" [March 14], Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University, Himes and Himes suggest that rights be will be followed shortly by a concluding volume, grounded in the self-giving relatedness of Essays in Religion, Politics, and Morality, which includes a significant selection from the unpublished the Trinity, with each relationship bring- Acton papers...
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