Lexington Books
Pages: 268
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-1-7936-0491-0 • Hardback • July 2020 • $123.00 • (£95.00)
978-1-7936-0493-4 • Paperback • December 2021 • $44.99 • (£35.00)
978-1-7936-0492-7 • eBook • July 2020 • $42.50 • (£35.00)
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 Hübel
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
About the Contributors
This 257-page book provides an impressive analysis of the Roman Catholic Church today. It is substantial, wide-ranging, rich in compelling insights. Twelve authors, each competent in her/his own right, offer facts and conclusions. . . .I recommend this book to every person who values Jesus’ dream of establishing a ‘kingdom of love’ and a community of faith in which all are brothers and sisters inspired by his vision.
— Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research
This superb collection of essays provides Catholics with a series of high-powered lenses for examining the monolith of clerical corruption that has thwarted Gospel justice in the 21st century. Moving us deeper into the root causes behind today’s painful headlines, individual contributors not only demonstrate the power of feminist analyses in exposing the long arc of sacralized misogyny and sexism, they unflinchingly expose prelates who cover up crimes and illuminate the power of the #MeToo movement to shift the narrative and expose the lackadaisical reporting by media outlets on the abuse of women religious in recent years. Overall, these contributors remind us that muscular correctives are available and being engaged against a rotting clericalist system. They illuminate critical remedies for holding Catholic clerics accountable, establishing full equality for women, and transforming hierarchical concepts of authority, power, and gender in order to carry out the work of the Gospel for today’s world. — Deborah Rose-Milavec, Future Church Co-Director