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Reform of the Ministries

Reform of the Ministries

`for the sake of the People of God`

Preparation for the ordination of women in the Catholic Church should go hand-in-hand with a reform of the ministries. Here we publish some material on questions relating to that reform. More will follow!

Body, Sex and Gender

Speaking Out

CIRCLES

Why reform the ministries? - because the people of God have changed!

‘God and our new Selves’, by John Wijngaards, paper presented at a consultation convoked by the Council of European Bishops Conferences, Vienna 1998. Religioni e Sette del Mondo 4 (1998) pp. 172 - 193.
‘Obedience a Questionable Virtue’, by Marie Louise Uhr, St Mark's Review, 173, pp 3-9, 1998.
‘Christian Autonomy and the Church’, by John Wijngaards, Theological Conference, Newman College, Birmingham, 24 June 2000.
‘A Pope the Laity Want’, by Sr. Joan Chittister, National Catholic Reporter 1999.

Can the ministries be reformed?

‘Oneness of the Community’, by Michael Deeb
‘Ministry in the Church’, by Gregory Baum, from Women and Orders, ed. Robert Heyer, New York 1974.
‘A New Look at Orders: Ministry for the Many’, by Thomas F. O’Meara, from Women and Orders, ed. Robert Heyer, New York 1974.
‘The implications of Christ’s priesthood’, by John Wijngaards, from Did Christ Rule Out Women Priests?, Great Wakering 1977.

What could new ministries look like?

“Gender Empowered Church”, CRI National Assembly Statement - 2006 (India)
‘Where are the Priest-Prophets?’, by Owen O’Sullivan, The Furrow 54 (2003) no1, pp. 37 - 42.
‘Understanding the ministerial priesthood according to the New Testament’, by Paul Wess, European Society for Catholic Theology, Graz 2001.
‘The New is Elsewhere’: Women’s Leadership in Community-Profit Organisations, by Patricia Marlette Black, Queensland University of Technology, 1999. (a complete book!!)
A discipleship of love : Mary of Bethany and the ministry of women by Tina Beattie, published in The Month, May 1997, pp171-175.
‘On being Women in the Church’, by Lavinia Byrne, from Women before God , SPCK 1988, pp. 97-108
Feminine in the Church, edited by Monica Furlong, SPCK, 1984.

What?! No human rights for Church members?

‘The Status of Women in the Code of Canon Law and in the United Nations Convention’, by Marie-Thérèse Van Lunen Chenu and Louise Wentholt, Praxis juridique et religion 1 (1984) pp. 7-18
“Human rights in the Church: a non-right for women in the Church?”, by Marie-Thérèse Van Lunen Chenu, in Human Rights. The Christian contribution, July 1998.
Church Law and ‘Women Priests’ by John Wijngaards.

The future Church?

A Pope for the Time to Come: Bishop of Rome and Universal Pastor, statement by IMWAC
‘A Council in the Likeness of Pope John’, by Joseph Dunn, from No Vipers in the Vatican(The Columba Press, 1996), pp. 133-142.
‘The Catholic Church in the Next Millennium’, by Joanna Manning, in Is the Pope Catholic? A Woman confronts her Church, Malcolm Lester Books, Toronto, 1999. Chapter 6, pp. 192 - 226.
The Reform of the Papacy : The Costly Call to Christian Unity by John R.Quinn, (1999), review by Robert Blair Kaiser.

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