Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2008

Publication Title

Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology

First Page

1

Last Page

14

DOI

10.1177/0966735008095638

Disciplines

Sociology

Abstract

Since 2002 Catholic women have been ordained and are ministering to communities through the organization Roman Catholic womenpriests (RCWP). In this article, Victoria Rue, PhD, ordained a womanpriest in 2005, reflects on ecclesial structures and the theologies that underpin them. RCWP uses the titles deacon, priest, and bishop. At the same time they do not wish to replicate the hierarchical model those titles suggest. At this crossroads of the old and the new, how do the women of RCWP redefine these models and their attendant theologies and still stay within the Roman Catholic Church?

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Copyright © 2008 SAGE Publications. The published version of the article can be found online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0966735008095638.

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