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
Former Catholics Hopes to Find Her Way Back to An Alterntive Catholic Community
| Written by Beth Brinson (USA) |
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I was born and raised a Catholic and attended Catholic school for 12 years. While there was much that I deeply loved about the church, I left in my early twenties when I could no longer tolerate the church’s patronizing attitude toward women. To deny the voice, vocation, and leadership gifts of half of those made in God’s image went against everything I understood and loved about the ministry of Jesus. The pivotal role of Mary Magdalene in the life of Jesus and his ministry is something the leadership in the church has conveniently forgotten and tried endlessly to dismiss. The denial of artificial contraception, the obsession with sin over mercy, and the cynical use of the communion rail to punish and exclude rather than welcome and heal has kept me from the church for over 30 years. There are so many in the church I admire deeply and I read their wisdom every day of my life…Thomas Merton, Thomas Berry, Richard Rohr and Joan Chittister to name only a few. I have a Catholic heart and hope one day to find my way to an alternative Catholic community to share my spiritual gifts and assuage my deep spiritual loneliness. Until that day I remain in exile…with a legion of others.
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