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Crisis and Challenge in the Roman Catholic Church

Perspectives on Decline and Reformation
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This volume explores the historical, theological, sociological, and ethical dimensions of the current issues threatening the two thousand-year-old Roman Catholic Church. The interdisciplinary analysis contained within the volume exposes the destructive convictions and actions of the Roman Catholic clergy that has produced the current institutional crisis while suggesting options for moving forward. Documenting the cases that constitute the many crises currently surrounding Catholicism, the volume aims to provide clarity and conscience. At the same time, with a constructive vision of an ethics and religious practice rooted in integrity and transparency, the authors offer a path towards holistic and holy reformation by and for Catholics.

Debra Meyers is professor at Northern Kentucky University, teaching a variety of courses in gender studies, history, and religious studies.

Mary Sue Barnett is Catholic woman priest, ordained by the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests.

 

 

Introduction

Debra Meyers

Chapter One

After the Smoke Clears: Insights and Challenges from Feminist Catholicism

Mary E. Hunt

Chapter Two

Cleaning the Church Attic: Discarding "Uniformity and Division" for "Unity in Diversity"

Paul Tenkotte

Chapter Three

Crises and Opportunities Since Vatican II: Conscience, Social Action, and Transparency

Pierre Hegy

Chapter Four

Grave Injustice & Great Deception: The Ban on Women Priests Never Rested on Theology

Miriam Duignan

Chapter Five

The Deconstruction of Clerical Hegemony: Ending the Moral Dissonance and Abuse of Power

Sylvia Hubel

Chapter Six

The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston: The Eye of the Storm

Siobhan Fleming

Chapter Seven

#NunsToo: Media Coverage of Sexual Violence against Nuns and Sisters After #MeToo

Tara M. Tuttle

Chapter Eight

The Perfect Victim: Childhood Sexual Trauma and Gendered Catholic Identity

Jo Scott-Coe

Chapter Nine

Awareness of the Divine Feminine, Holy Sophia: Leaving Behind Roman Catholic Misogyny

Mary Sue Barnett

Chapter Ten

I Am Heartily Sorry: The Roman Catholic Church and Domestic Abuse

Debra Meyers

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