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Despite these laws, some women, particularly abbesses, gained powers that were never available to women in previous Roman or Germanic societies. [18] Although historians have argued that church teachings emboldened secular authorities to give women fewer rights than men, they also helped form the concept of chivalry. [19]
A group pressing for women's ordination promptly dismissed the significance of it as “crumbs,” noting that ordained men would once again be making decisions about women's roles in the church.
The Roman Catholic Church has also created what some may describe as empowering mechanisms for women. The church does not allow women to be priests, in part because its leaders say that Jesus only ...
Religious life is a distinct vocation in itself, and women live in consecrated life as a nun or religious sister, and throughout the history of the Church it has not been uncommon for an abbess to head a dual monastery, i.e., a community of men and women. Women today exercise many roles in the Church.
The early church developed a monastic tradition which included the institution of the convent through which women developed religious orders of sisters and nuns, an important ministry of women which has continued to the present day in the establishment of schools, hospitals, nursing homes and monastic settlements.
Giving women a greater role in the male-dominated Church is one of the issues up for the debate at a summit of bishops known as the synod. A first, inconclusive session was held last year.
One of those non-essentials is women’s ordination, so much so that the subject is part of the denomination’s founding and its current appeal to churches like Koinonia that are leaving the more ...
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