Crossroads: Women Priests in the Roman Catholic Church

Since 2002 Catholic women have been ordained and are ministering to communities through the organization Roman Catholic womenpriests (RCWP). In this article, Victoria Rue, PhD, ordained a womanpriest in 2005, reflects on ecclesial structures and the theologies that underpin them. RCWP uses the title...

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Main Author: Rue, Victoria (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2008
In: Feminist theology
Year: 2008, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 11-20
Further subjects:B Roman Catholic
B Women's Ordination
B Ecclesiology
B womenpriests
B Canon Law 1024
B women deacons
B Feminist Theology
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Summary:Since 2002 Catholic women have been ordained and are ministering to communities through the organization Roman Catholic womenpriests (RCWP). In this article, Victoria Rue, PhD, ordained a womanpriest in 2005, reflects on ecclesial structures and the theologies that underpin them. RCWP uses the titles deacon, priest, and bishop. At the same time they do not wish to replicate the hierarchical model those titles suggest. At this crossroads of the old and the new, how do the women of RCWP redefine these models and their attendant theologies and still stay within the Roman Catholic Church?
ISSN:1745-5189
Contains:Enthalten in: Feminist theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0966735008095638