Women in the Church articles
- Catholic Women Speak up about Sexual Abuse and Call for Change
- Christian Women Challenge Church Power Structures
- Transparent policies and accountability needed if the Vatican is serious about bringing more women to meaningful leadership at the Curia
- Women called to priestly ministry
- All-male Priesthood is definitive - CDF, 29 May 2018
- Statement of the Indian Women Theologians’ Forum (IWTF)
- Equality: A False Belief In All Male God Is Idolatry
- “to end discrimination within the Church for race and sex…as not the Will of God.”
- Impact of Religion and Culture on Women’s Empowerment - An Indian Perspective
- Meetings of the Indian Women Theologians Forum - 2015-16
- A Comment on the Commission To Study Women's Diaconate
- Hierarchy Unaware Of Their Bigotry
- Exclusion Not God's Plan
- How Do Cathoic Women Accept Such Injustice: An Old Man Asks
- Women We Have Vocations
- Women Diaconate a Beginning To Right Injustice
- Women's Ordination To Diaconate Would Be a Great First Step
- Clergy Equals Men's Club
- Women Brutalized: Chuch Must Show The Way to Justice
- Too Much Power Tied to Ordination
- Seventy Two Years and Still Waiting for Equality
- Woman and Man Created Equal In God's Image
- It's Time To Allow Women
- Pray For a Good Harvest But Keep on Hoeing
- Women Called To Priesthood
- Italian Perspective
- A Cradle Catholic Frustrated by Injustice Against Women
- Former Catholics Hopes to Find Her Way Back to An Alterntive Catholic Community
- Can We Hear the Stampede of Women Exiting
- Jesus Never Treated Women as Subordinate
- Throw Off the Stranglehood of St Augustine
- Lost Respect For Pope When He Banned Discussion of Women's Ordination
- c\Complementarity Is Harmful to Human Development
- Woman Pope
- Remove False Dichotomy
- Mary Magdalene: A Woman Denied
- Conversation In Consciousness Development: Women In The Church
- A Diaconate and Priesthood For Women
- St. Paul "You Are All One In Christ Jesus"
- My Daughters Would Be Still Catholic
- Women Are Called By God
Lost Respect For Pope When He Banned Discussion of Women's Ordination
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I am Catholic and I value my faith (Jesus and the gospel messages) I have studied religion and theology and continue to read widely on matters of faith and religion. I have not always seen eye to eye on all church teachings but have tried to find a way forward and though all the man-made details by focusing on my faith and what is truth to me but… I lost respect for the Pope when he banned discussion on the topic of Women’s ordination. What sort of dictator does that? My opinion was reinforced as faithful people were threatened with excommunication or made to retire from the ordained ministry for discussing it. I lost respect for the then bishop of Australia when he suggested ‘counselling workshops’ for women who were having difficulty coming to terms with the Pope’s decision and the church’s teaching on Women’s ordination and the role of women in the church. As if counselling would help us come to terms with the fact that the church is sexist and out of touch with what it means to be a baptised person of Christ. I have not regained this respect and I no longer respect many of the church’s teachings or teachers (hierarchy) due to this and many other issues in the church that exclude, diminish or threaten the message of love and acceptance that Jesus so obviously gave. Jesus came that all may have life and have it to the full. The way I see it is that if a group of men want to entirely ignore the voice and spirituality of women by following man-made rules, then women have every right to ignore the voice and ‘spirituality’ of the group of men and the rules that they follow. In fact, unless the church speaks of love and inclusiveness and actually models it, I am not interested at all. It may as well blow in the wind.
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