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Womanpriest: Tradition And Transgression In The Contemporary Roman Catholic Church, Jill Peterfeso
Womanpriest: Tradition And Transgression In The Contemporary Roman Catholic Church, Jill Peterfeso
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While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking if priests are necessary, especially given the ongoing sex-abuse scandal, The Roman Catholic Womanpriests (RCWP) looks to reframe and reform Roman Catholic priesthood, starting with ordained women. Womanpriest is the first academic study of the RCWP movement. As an ethnography, Womanpriest analyzes the womenpriests’ actions and lived theologies in order to explore ongoing tensions in Roman Catholicism around gender and sexuality, priestly authority, and religious change.
In order to understand how womenpriests …