Title Womanpriest Tradition and Transgression in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Church / Jill Peterfeso

Published Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020 Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000 2020

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Description 1 online resource (1 EPUB unpaged.) Series Catholic practice in North America Catholic practice in North America. Book collections on Project MUSE Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction St. Louis, Missouri December 27, 2009 -- Chapter 1 Called -- Chapter 2 Rome's Mixed Messages -- Chapter 3 Conflict and Creativity -- Chapter 4 Ordination -- Chapter 5 Sacraments -- Chapter 6 Ministries on the Margins -- Chapter 7 Womenpriests' Bodies in Persona Christi -- Conclusion -- Appendix A Interview Subjects and Primary Sources -- Appendix B Interview Questions for Womenpriests -- Appendix C Data and Interview Questions for RCWP Communities -- Acknowledgments -- Notes Summary While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking if priests are necessary, especially given the ongoing sex-abuse scandal, The Roman Catholic Womanpriests (RCWP) looks to reframe and reform Roman Catholic priesthood, starting with ordained women. Womanpriest is the first academic study of the RCWP movement. As an ethnography, Womanpriest analyzes the womenpriests' actions and lived theologies in order to explore ongoing tensions in Roman Catholicism around gender and sexuality, priestly authority, and religious change. In order to understand how womenpriests navigate tradition and transgression, this study situates RCWP within post-Vatican II Catholicism, apostolic succession, sacraments, ministerial action, and questions of embodiment. Womanpriest reveals RCWP to be a discrete religious movement in a distinct religious moment, with a small group of tenacious women defying the Catholic patriarchy, taking on the priestly role, and demanding reconsideration of Roman Catholic tradition. Doing so, the women inhabit and re-create the central tensions in Catholicism today Analysis Roman Catholicism feminism ordination priesthood sacraments womanpriest women Notes Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Description based on print version record Subject Roman Catholic Womenpriests-USA, Inc. Women priests. Ordination of women -- Catholic Church. Ordination of women -- Catholic Church Women priests Form Electronic book Author Project Muse, distributor. ISBN 9780823288298 0823288293

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