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2. Women in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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   Many Catholic women, both lay and in religious orders, have become influential mystics or theologians – with four women now recognised as Doctors of the Church: the Carmelites have produced two such women, the Spanish mystic Saint Teresa of Avila and French author Saint Therese of Lisieux; while Catherine of Siena was an Italian Dominican and ...

3. Ordination of women and the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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   References are made within the earliest Christian communities to the role of women in positions of church leadership. Paul's letter to the Romans, written in the first century, commends Phoebe who is described as "deaconess of the church at Cenchreae" that she be received "in the Lord as befits the saints, and help her in whatever she may require from you, for she has been a helper of many and ...

4. Excommunicated female Catholic priest keeps up fight for ...

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   Oct. 25—When she comes up to the altar rail to receive a blessing during Communion while wearing her clerical vestments, the Rev. Anne Tropeano — known as "Father Anne" — receives a variety ...

5. Ordination of women in Christianity - Wikipedia

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   In Christianity, the ordination of women has been taking place in an increasing number of Protestant and Old Catholic churches, starting in the 20th century. Since ancient times, certain churches of the Orthodox tradition, such as the Coptic Orthodox Church, have raised women to the office of deaconess. [1]

6. Elizabeth Johnson (theologian) - Wikipedia

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   Catholic Woman Religious, Professor Emerita of Theology Elizabeth A. Johnson CSJ (born December 7, 1941) is a Roman Catholic feminist theologian . [ 1 ] She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Theology at Fordham University , a Jesuit institution in New York City and a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood.

7. Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity - Wikipedia

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   The Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) is a Society of Apostolic Life within the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in 1958 by Father James H. Flanagan, a priest from the United States. The Society maintains missions in various countries, describing itself as Marian-Trinitarian, Catholic, missionary, and family. [1]

8. Father Anne - Wikipedia

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   "Father Anne", born Anne Tropeano, is a Catholic who was ordained as a Catholic Priest through the Womanpriest Movement.Upon her ordination, Father Anne accepted excommunication from the institutional Roman Catholic Church, as a sign of her respect for the Church, and a peaceful protest of the historical injustice of men's only ordination in her church.

9. Sex and gender roles in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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   In this time period women were inferior to men and the inequality of gender was used as a source of power in their sermons. [57] In colonial and early-independent Mexico, male archbishops would use language "that either explicitly invoked patriarchal social norms or creatively reinforced them through adaptations of tropes of masculinity and ...