[PDF] The Vaticans Women eBook

Author : Paul Hofmann
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 2002-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781429975476

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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.

Author : Paul Hofmann
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 2002-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780312274900

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An examination into the roles of women in the Vatican throughout history looks at the lives of notable Catholic women who held positions of power, including St. Catherine of Siena, Queen Christina of Sweden, and Mother Teresa.

Author : Carmel E. McEnroy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1610975480

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Endorsements: "Thirty years after the close of Vatican II, we have this fresh revelation of the 'strange Roman experience' of the twenty-three women from fourteen different countries invited to be auditors at the previously all male Council. You will not want to stop before the end." -- Marie Augusta Neal, SND de Namur, Professor of Sociology, Emerita, Emmanuel College, Boston "An important and necessary history that will find great interest for a long time." --Bernard Haring, Moral Theologian "Facts buried in archives come alive in the living voices of these women who now share the 'dangerous memory' of their presence at Vatican II. Carmel McEnroy tells this story with keen insight into women's oppression in the Church, an eye for the humorous detail, and great narrative flair. Thank goodness she rescued this piece of history before it disappeared over the horizon like so much else." --Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ, Professor of Theology, Fordham University "This interesting historical investigation of the exclusion and participation of women at the Vatican Council reveals the dynamics of communication within the Church, including its systematic distortions and the forgiving fidelity of dedicated women. I am glad that this book has been written." --Gregory Baum, Professor of Theology, McGill University Author Biography: Carmel McEnroy, a Sister of Mercy and distinguished professor of theology, was fired in 1995 from St. Meinard Seminary for her public dissent from church teaching on women's ordination. Her name had appeared with hundreds of others in an advertisement questioning the issue in the National Catholic Reporter.

Author : Eleanor Herman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 006182741X

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Eleanor Herman, the talented author of the New York Times bestselling Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen goes behind the sacred doors of the Catholic Church in Mistress of the Vatican, a scintillating biography of a powerful yet little-known woman whose remarkable story is ripe with secrets, sex, passion, and ambition. For almost four centuries this astonishing story of a woman’s absolute power over the Vatican has been successfully buried—until now.

Author : Mary J. Henold
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 38,22 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1469654504

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Summoning everyday Catholic laywomen to the forefront of twentieth-century Catholic history, Mary J. Henold considers how these committed parishioners experienced their religion in the wake of Vatican II (1962–1965). This era saw major changes within the heavily patriarchal religious faith—at the same time as an American feminist revolution caught fire. Who was the Catholic woman for a new era? Henold uncovers a vast archive of writing, both intimate and public facing, by hundreds of rank-and-file American laywomen active in national laywomen's groups, including the National Council of Catholic Women, the Catholic Daughters of America, and the Daughters of Isabella. These records evoke a formative period when laywomen played publicly with a surprising variety of ideas about their own position in the Catholic Church. While marginalized near the bottom of the church hierarchy, laywomen quietly but purposefully engaged both their religious and gender roles as changing circumstances called them into question. Some eventually chose feminism while others rejected it, but most, Henold says, crafted a middle position: even conservative, nonfeminist laywomen came to reject the idea that the church could adapt to the modern world while keeping women's status frozen in amber.

Author : Lynda Telford
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1445686244

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

Author : Barbara Ferraro
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804108713

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The true story of two nuns who risked everything to challenge the church on abortion provides a glimpse of the cloistered world of nuns, women's role in the church today, and the place of the church in modern American life. Reprint.

Author : Barbara Ferraro
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780671644062

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Here is a moving and fascinating profile in courage, a compelling drama of committed women tunneling out from under dogma and denial toward enlightenment and adult responsibility. Brilliantly told by two heroic, sympathetic, and intensely contemporary women.

Author : Carmel E. McEnroy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725230089

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"Thirty years after the close of Vatican II, we have this fresh revelation of the 'strange Roman experience' of the twenty-three women from fourteen different countries invited to be auditors at the previously all male Council. You will not want to stop before the end." -- Marie Augusta Neal, SND de Namur, Professor of Sociology, Emerita, Emmanuel College, Boston "An important and necessary history that will find great interest for a long time." --Bernard Haring, Moral Theologian "Facts buried in archives come alive in the living voices of these women who now share the 'dangerous memory' of their presence at Vatican II. Carmel McEnroy tells this story with keen insight into women's oppression in the Church, an eye for the humorous detail, and great narrative flair. Thank goodness she rescued this piece of history before it disappeared over the horizon like so much else." --Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ, Professor of Theology, Fordham University "This interesting historical investigation of the exclusion and participation of women at the Vatican Council reveals the dynamics of communication within the Church, including its systematic distortions and the forgiving fidelity of dedicated women. I am glad that this book has been written." --Gregory Baum, Professor of Theology, McGill University