Women & Catholicism: Gender, Communion, and Authority [Hardcover]

The book?investigates three situations in the Catholic Church that?point to Catholicism's weak spot: the role of women in the Church. Zagano sheds light on the Catholic Church's hierarchically-imposed laws?that keep women at a distance from the holy, whether as liturgical ministers, as wives of priests, or as priests themselves.PART?I: JURIDICAL AUTHORITY: BISHOP BRUSKEWITZ, THE BISHOPS' CONFERENCE, AND CALL TO ACTION Community and Authority? Who is Fabian Bruskewitz?? The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops? The USCCB and the Sex Abuse Scandal? Bishop Bruskewitz and Call to Action? Call to Action and Call to ActionNebraska? Call to Action? Communion and Authority in Lincoln, Nebraska? PART II: SACRAMENTAL AUTHORTIY: ARCHBISHOP MILINGO, THE VATICAN, AND MARRIED PRIESTS NOW!? Who is Emanuel Milingo?? Lusaka? Rome? Marriage, Moon, and Married Priests Now!? Married Priests, Faith HealingAfrica, Rome, and Around the World? The Excommunications of Archbishop Millingo? Questions of Communion and Authority? Personal Prelatures and Future Possibilities? The Underground Church in Czechoslovakia? PART III: JURIDICAL AUTHORITY, SACRAMENTAL AUTHORITY, AND WOMEN'S ORDINATION? Infallibility? Roman Catholic Womenpriests? The Sacrament of Order: History and Theology? Anglican Women Priests and the Validity of Anglican Orders? Ordained Women Deacons? Conclusions Regarding the Diaconate? Ordination, Excommunication, and Roman Catholic Women? Interlude: Ordained Women in the Underground Church

Zagano s commitment to doing her homework is on full display as she ably synthesizes journalism, canon law, ecclesiology, and a solid working knowledge of church practice. It is helpful that, in a book that focuses on borderline cases, she seems committed to not taking sides. - National Catholic Reporter

Equal parts informative and provocative, Phyllis Zagano s book exhaustively examines the questions of validity and liceity that surround the ordination of women tolS6