Crisis and Challenge in the Roman Catholic Church
Perspectives on Decline and Reformation
Crisis and Challenge in the Roman Catholic Church
Perspectives on Decline and Reformation
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Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781793604910
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 15/07/2020
Width: 16.2 cm
Height: 23.9 cm
This volume explores the historical, theological, sociological, and ethical dimensions of the current issues threatening the two thousand-year-old Roman Catholic Church. The interdisciplinary analysis contained within the volume exposes the destructive convictions and actions of the Roman Catholic clergy that has produced the current institutional crisis while suggesting options for moving forward. Documenting the cases that constitute the many crises currently surrounding Catholicism, the volume aims to provide clarity and conscience. At the same time, with a constructive vision of an ethics and religious practice rooted in integrity and transparency, the authors offer a path towards holistic and holy reformation by and for Catholics.
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
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 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
