COMMENTARY

Women’s Place in the Church: A Report Card on the Status of Women


The Women’s Justice Coalition, a network of organizations committed to conducting a joint action each year to promote the full equality of women in the Roman Catholic Church, has formed. Their 2006 action, “Rating the US Dioceses: A Report Card on the Status of Women” as church employees and church members should help point the way forward.

The idea grew out of a 1996 “benchmarks” study by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Although John Paul II and then Cardinal Ratzinger decreed the church does not possess “the authority to ordain women to the priesthood,” they affirmed the dignity of women, condemned every form of discrimination, and called for women’s full inclusion in the life of the church. Recently, Pope Benedict XVI said, “It is right to ask…if it’s not possible to offer more space, more positions of responsibility to women.”

To participate in the study, please visit their website. The report card work sheets can be downloaded from the web site. Questions? Call 301-699-0042 and ask for Rea Howarth. The group expects to publish the results in early November.



In the Vineyard
August 24, 2006
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