Womanpriest : : tradition and transgression in the contemporary Roman Catholic Church / / Jill Peterfeso.

• VerfasserIn: Peterfeso, Jill,
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Fordham University Press,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 pages)

"The Roman Catholic Church strictly forbids women's ordination, arguing that women priests defy God's will for the Church. Enter Roman Catholic Womanpriests (RCWP), an international movement that has ordained nearly 250 women worldwide, mostly in the United States and Canada. The Vatican insists that women have never been and can never be priests; RCWP responds by ordaining womenpriests who lead worship communities, perform sacramental ministries, and embody Christ as women. RCWP trangresses official Roman Catholic teaching while seeking to uphold and redeem Roman Catholic traditions--all while provocatively claiming to be Roman Catholic. 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. This book 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 recreate the central tension in Catholicism today"-- Book cover.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- 1. Called -- 2. Rome's Mixed Messages -- 3. Conflict and Creativity -- 4. Ordination -- 5. Sacraments -- 6. Ministries on the Margins -- 7. Bodies in persona Christi -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Appendix A. Interview Subjects and Primary Sources -- Appendix B. Interview -- Questions for Womenpriests -- Appendix C. Data and Interview Questions for RCWP Communities -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.