02637nam 2200361 450 991068849420332120230624075421.0(CKB)5400000000044022(NjHacI)995400000000044022(EXLCZ)99540000000004402220230624d2020 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWomanpriest tradition and transgression in the contemporary Roman Catholic Church /Jill PeterfesoNew York :Fordham University Press,2020.1 online resource (276 pages)0-8232-8827-7 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."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.Womanpriest Church historyChurch history.270Peterfeso Jill968769NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910688494203321Womanpriest2200543UNINA