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Fall 2013/Winter 2014 A Voice for Women in the Catholic Church On the 20 th Anniversary of Ordinatio Sacerdotalis By Erin Saiz Hanna ust before charist, is not a question open to dis - Thanksgiving, cussion, but it can prove especially Pope Francis divisive if sacramental power is too J closely identified with power in gen - released his Evangelii Gaudium eral.” known as a Where Francis misses the mark is blueprint for his suggesting that we are seeking ordi - papacy. Like nation simply as means to gain Pope Francis’s power. While women’s decision humble, pastoral making and leadership is certainly Erin Saiz Hanna nature, much of vital, and something WOC has been this 84-page advocating for decades, the fact of document will win over the hearts of many the matter is women are called by continued on page 3 Catholics. As I read the document, I found God to serve all people alongside their myself really rooting for Francis when he brother priests. For a pope who seems so in said: “How can it be that it is not a news tune with the marginalized, how does he INSIDE item when an elderly homeless person dies not see that the marginalized also need to of exposure, but it is news when the stock be served by women as well as men; that From the Executive Director ...... Page 2 market loses two points?” Yes. This is what women are part of the faithful and fully Jesus would say. This is being Catholic. This ready, willing, and able to serve God’s peo - Meet Our Newest WOC is social justice. ple? How can his sense of social justice not Board Members ...... Page 3 extend to the women of the church and When he stated “I readily acknowledge Action Center: Catholic Organizations that many women share pastoral responsi - their capacity for ordained ministry? Launch Online Survey ...... Page 4 bilities with priests, helping to guide peo - This May marks the twentieth anniversary ple, families and groups and offering new of Ordinatio Sacerdotalis , the apostolic letter Rosalie Muschal-Reinhardt ...... Page 4 contributions to theological reflection. But written by John Paul II, which declared all we need to create still broader opportuni - discussion on women’s ordination officially Equal in Faith: Fasting for ties for a more incisive female presence in closed. In his now infamous interview Gender Justice ...... Page 5 the Church” I was filled with hope. If only given to reporters en route to Rome from he had stopped there. World Youth Day, Pope Francis referred to Some Thoughts on the Suggestion to “Put Ordination Aside” ...... Page 6 But he didn’t. In his very next statement, he this document saying “on the ordination of would break my heart like so many popes women, the church has spoken and said Women as Pioneers at Vatican II . . . Page 7 of the past. He followed that glorious state - no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation ment by trying to put women back in their said that door is closed.” Women Human Rights Defenders place and declaring to the world that The use of the expression “definitive” is im - Resolution Passed at UN — Strong women’s ordination won’t happen under portant to note, because Ordinatio Sacerdo - Resistance from the Vatican ...... Page 9 his watch. He was even sure to iterate that talis was never declared an infallible we’re not even supposed to discuss the document nor was word infallible ever The Start of the Journey for a issue. used in the document, not to mention that Stranger in a Strange Land ...... Page 10 it was also signed by Joseph Cardinal Francis goes on to say, “The reservation of Book Reviews ...... Pages 13-14 the priesthood to males, as a sign of Christ Ratzinger, not Pope John Paul II (which the Spouse who gives himself in the Eu - means that it can more easily be undone). Join WOC ...... Page 15 Pope Francis could, in fact, officially reopen WOC Merchandise ...... Page 16 See Spanish Translation Inside: El Regalo de la Inconveniencia, Pagina 12 From the Executive Director

nity to join hands with our sisters in the NewWomen, NewChurch is published struggle who are also fighting patriarchy in three times a year by the Women’s Ordination their religious institutions. We learned a Conference ( WOC ). WOC works for the great deal from each other and found that ordination of women as deacons, priests, and our stories have much in common. Equal in bishops into an inclusive and accountable Roman Faith will be held again in 2014. If you are in - Catholic Church. terested in hosting a prayer service in your Editors community, let me know. Kate Conmy Erin Saiz Hanna Kate Conmy, WOC Assistant Director, helps Diana Wear address some tough questions regarding Pope Francis and role of women in church Send address corrections and all correspondence to: on page 6 in her article responding to the Erin Saiz Hanna challenge in an NCR article to “Put Ordina - WOC National Office tion Aside.” Throughout February and P.O. Box 15057 March, Kate will be blogging from Rome. Be Washington, DC 20003 Dear WOC members, 202.675.1006 sure to follow her organizing adventures [email protected] Happy New Year! I am proud to share with through our web site on the WOC blog, you this edition of the NewWomen, New - called The Table. Church. It reflects the progress we have On page 7, we publish an article by Ida made during the last few months. As you National Board of Directors continue to read through the pages of this Raming, a renowned theologian and one of issue, I believe you will find equal inspira - the founders of the RCWP movement. , Christine Marion Flynn Haider-Winnett tion in the stories of WOC supporters who Many of our long time readers will be famil - Tracy Garrison-Feinberg Co-President continue to advocate on behalf of women iar with the story Raming recounts but we Margaret Johnson both in our church and in the world. thought to print it here for newcomers to the Johanna Hatch movement for that grounding of the activist Co-President Jeannette Mulherin You will meet some distinguished new women who stood their ground at the Sec - Alan Klonowski Drina Nikola board members on page 3. We are honored ond Vatican Council, reforms that we’re still Treasurer Tracy Robison to have their expertise and energy. All of implementing even today. Jane Via, RCWP Erin Saiz Hanna our board members recently underwent an Secretary intense strategic planning process with a We also continue to print and celebrate the Executive Director consultant. Using your comments and stories of women who experience calls to or - input gathered earlier in the year, our dination. In this issue we feature Donnieau Synder, who was recently ordained in the board is in the process of drafting a plan to National Advisers strengthen and increase membership pro - Roman Catholic Womenpriest (RCWP) grams and campaigns. Stay tuned for more movement. Snyder shares her very moving Roy Bourgeois Andrea Johnson developments in upcoming issues of New - story on page 10. Elisabeth Schüssler Theresa Kane, RSM Fiorenza Women, New Church . Also, if you are inter - In closing, thank you your prayers, activism Anthony Padovano Jeannine Gramick, SL ested in joining the board, let me know and and contributions to WOC. Your feedback is Donna Quinn, OP I will put you in touch with our nomina - critical in making NewWomen, NewChurch a Celine Goessl, SCSC tions committee. We are accepting board Rosemary Radford forum for public discussion about the Harry R. Halloran, Jr. Ruether nominations until February 15th, 2014. women’s ordination movement and the Mary E. Hunt On page 4, we remember one of our church and world we envision. Send your sheroes and founders, Rosalie Muschal- thoughts and suggestions to me at Reinhardt, who passed away on October 6, [email protected] In principle and practice WOC values and seeks 2013. Muschal-Reinhardt actively fought to On behalf of all of the women of church we a diverse membership. There shall be no barriers eliminate all forms of sexism, racism, clas - speak out for every day, thank you for your to full participation in this organization on the sism, heterosexism, and ageism in church ongoing generosity and partnership. basis of gender, race, creed, age, sexual orienta - and society. tion, national origin, or disability. Blessings, Rabbi Tamara Miller recounts our interfaith A subscription to NewWomen, NewChurch is in - Equal in Faith day of prayer and fasting on cluded in the WOC membership fee of $45. WOC page 5. This event, which was held in is incorporated under 501(c)(3) as a nonprofit or - ganization. Contributions are tax deductible ac - Washington, DC. on Women’s Equality Day cordingly. last August, gave WOC a special opportu - Erin WOC archives, including microfilms of NewWomen, NewChurch , are held at Marquette University. 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2 New Women, New Church • Fall 2013/Winter 2014 News & Notes Meet Our Newest WOC Board Members

Tracy Garrison-Fein - ground to her commitment to WOC’s mis - Margaret Johnson from berg has been an edu - sion and is excited to work for an inclusive Washington, D.C., cator since 1990, and a and accountable Church. serves as a pastoral as - committed Catholic for Marion Flynn from sociate in the social jus - far longer. After five Evanston, Illinois, is an tice ministry of a years as a high school active parishioner at St. Catholic parish. After social studies teacher, Nicholas parish in that completing a B.A. in she had a rich and re - town, lives with the Theology and Reli - warding career at the tension of being a les - gious Studies with a international non-profit organization Fac - bian Catholic called to Minor in Peace Studies at The Catholic ing History and Ourselves, and recently the priesthood. She University of America, Margaret lived as a joined the Holocaust Memorial and Toler - earned an MBA from Jesuit Volunteer in Los Angeles, followed ance Center of Nassau County as the direc - Northwestern University and is a former by four years in Catholic Worker commu - tor of their Friedlander Education Institute, Senior Vice President with the Bank of nities. Inspired by the spirit that the Nun - where she manages educational programs America. She has spent the last few years as justice Coalition in support of LCWR for students and schools. a fundraiser for a large, interfaith Catholic sparked in the summer of 2012, Margaret Tracy was raised Catholic in an ecumenical school in Chicago and for the United Way. continues to follow her passion of delving setting by her Catholic mother, Baptist- She has experience as a board member of deeper into the intersecting spheres of fem - raised and Catholic convert father, and several nonprofits, has served as a city com - inism, spirituality, community, and ac - Methodist grandparents. The informal the - missioner, led her parish council, and cur - countability in justice work. ology lessons she got from her mother on rently serves the car ride home from church each Sun - on the board day helped form the basis for inquiry that of CROSO, Tracy nurtured throughout her college an organiza - years in Austin, Texas at the University tion that sup - Catholic Center (UCC). She credits the ports college Paulist priests there for “keeping me education for Catholic,” and she learned that a question - former street ing Catholic could also be a faithful children in Catholic. Her work with the music pro - Uganda. She gram at UCC, particularly with Sister Mar - is not new to garet Andre, introduced her to feminist WOC, having theology which has remained an important served on the part of her spiritual journey. At Facing His - Event Com - tory and Ourselves Tracy worked with in - mittee for terfaith scholars, clergy and lay people who WOC’s 35th helped to connect the lessons of history to Anniversary. ongoing conversations of ethics, morality, and spirituality. Tracy brings this back - WOC board meeting, October 2013 in Cleveland, Ohio

On the 20th Anniversary of Ordinatio Sacerdotalis ...continued from page 1 the discussion if he wanted to, but instead “church has spoken and said no.” Pope well as called by God to serve all God’s keeps offering the Catholic faithful John Paul II tried to end the conversation people, and in all ways, including holy or - refutable rationales instead of re-reading on women’s ordination in 1994 when is - ders. A delegation of women’s ordination those documents and discovering for him - sued this document. He did not succeed— advocates will hold a prayerful vigil and self that they have no basis theologically, we’re still talking. Neither will Pope Francis hand deliver to the Vatican the letters of philosophically, scripturally, nor ecclesiasti - end the discussion. We will keep talking, women called and those standing up for cally. This pope needs to become educated serving in ministerial and sacramental justice in the church. on women’s ordination rather than stay roles, and WOC-ing our talk. If you are interested in submitting a letter stuck in the past and repeat unsubstanti - Throughout the coming months as we pre - or joining us on this delegation, email me at ated rules and practices that no longer pare for the twentieth anniversary of this ehanna@womensordination. Pope Francis serve our church or world. outdated document, WOC, in partnership has been known to answer a letter or two – For a pope who does not want “sacramen - with WOW (Women’s Ordination World - perhaps he will answer yours. tal power too closely identified with power wide), will collect letters from the faithful in general” he has indeed tried to exert his Catholics who support the ordination of power over the discussion on women’s or - women and recognize that women, like dination. Pope Francis stated that the men are both created in God’s image as

Fall 2013/Winter 2014 • www.womensordination.org 3 News & Notes Vatican Seeks Parish-Level Input: Catholic Organizations Launch Online Survey

n November 12, 2013 survey was altered to include inclusive and the Vatican’s deadline of December 31st, representatives from a coalition of affirming language in both English and followed by an independent analysis by O15 Catholic reform organizations Spanish. Within just one week, the survey February 1, 2014. traveled to Baltimore to the U.S. has collected over 7,000 responses, which This project is sponsored by the following Conference of Bishops (USCCB) meeting to will be independently and professionally members of Catholic Organizations for Re - announce the launch of an online petition, analyzed, and sent to Cardinal Sean newal (COR): American Catholic Council; set up to gather parish-level support for the O’Malley; the Apostolic Nuncio, Bishop Call To Action; CORPUS; DignityUSA; Fed - Vatican’s Synod on the Family, to be held in Carlo Maria Viganò; Archbishop Joseph eration of Christian Ministries/Roman October, 2014. Archbishop Lorenzo Kurtz, President of the USCCB; and Catholic Faith Community Council in the Baldisseri, Secretary General of the Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri, Secretary Church; FutureChurch; New Ways Min - Vatican's Synod of Bishops, asked bishops’ General of the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops. istry; RAPPORT; Roman Catholic Women - conferences to commence a survey In the weeks following the release of the priests; Southeastern Pennsylvania "immediately as widely as possible to survey, several diocese throughout the Women’s Ordination Conference; Voice of deaneries and parishes so that input from country have made similar survey ques - the Faithful; and WOC. local sources can be received," something tions available locally, some online and Co-sponsors include: Catholic Church Re - that the USCCB is unable or unwilling to some in print only. Collection from the lay- do nationally. Largely based on the form; Fortunate Families; WATER: Women's lead survey will continue until December Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual. questions sent to the bishops, the coalition’s 15, 2013; the initial results will be sent by Rosalie Muschal-Reinhardt 1933-2013 By Jeannette Mulherin

n October 6, 2013 WOC lost a Council by visiting parishes to educate fel - Church Con - founding mother with the passing low Catholics on the changes. Further in - vergence of Rosalie Muschal-Reinhardt, 80 volvement in education included work as a and in 1988 O public school teacher and consultant to reli - she co- years old, in Webster, New York. gious education programs in Puerto Rico, founded A co-founder of WOC and a prominent Argentina, and Rochester. Mary’s leader in the Catholic feminist movement, Muschal-Reinhardt spent the latter part of Pence, an or - Rosalie Muschal-Reinhhardt Muschal-Reinhardt served on the first ordi - ganization nation conference task force and WOC’s the 1970’s attempting to establish a mean - ingful dialogue between the Catholic that collects funds for women’s ministries. first core commission. She was a facilitator By the early 1990’s she was co-coordinating at the 1975 Detroit Conference and in 1978 women’s movement and the U.S. bishops. This effort included lobbying at annual Na - the Prism Collective, the purpose of which took charge of the national WOC office, was to “foster feminist scholarship for ado - then in Rochester, New York, with her col - tional Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) meetings and participating in offi - lescent women,” “to publish books on league and close friend, Ada-Maria Isasi- women-affirming spirituality,” and “make Diaz. cial dialogues between the NCCB’s Com - mittee on Women and WOC. She was the the world safer and saner for all women.” Muschal-Reinhardt’s activist spirit was nur - keynote speaker at the National Organiza - Prism Collective published and produced tured in childhood by a mother who tion of Women (NOW) New York confer - several mixed-media projects including the worked outside the home (atypical in the ence in 1978. video, “Choices at the Crossroads” in 1994. 1930’s) and a father who did housework, As her awareness of Catholic women’s in - Catholic feminists owe a debt of gratitude both of whom encouraged her to question to Rosalie Muschal-Reinhardt, on whose injustice. After graduating from Cathedral equality grew, Muschal-Reinhardt ceased fi - nancial support to the church, explaining shoulders we now stand. The words she High School in Trenton, New Jersey, she en - spoke at the Detroit conference in 1976 still tered a Sisters of Mercy convent, but left a that she would not contribute to her own oppression. She ultimately broke ties with inspire those who continue the work she year later to attend Rider College where began, “We convene this conference as an she was awarded a Bachelor of Science De - the institutional church but remained close to other movement women and eventually act of faith, hope, and love in you and in gree in Business Education. She went on to the community of the people of God. We earn a Master of Arts in Religious Educa - became a Covenant member with the Wheaton Franciscan Sisters in Wheaton, come because we must. We have heard tion at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School your good news.” and a Master of Divinity degree from the Illinois. Jesuit School of Theology at Loyola Univer - Muschal-Reinhardt’s tremendous contribu - Reference: sity Chicago. tion to the cause of women’s equality con - Mary J. Henold , Catholic and Feminist: The Sur - prising History of the American Catholic Feminist Staunchly committed to the church as a tinued throughout her lifetime. She served as the national coordinator for the Women’s Movement (Chapel Hill, NC: University of young woman, Muschal-Reinhardt enthu - North Carolina Press, 2008). siastically responded to the Second Vatican Church Coalition, later re-named Women-

4 New Women, New Church • Fall 2013/Winter 2014 Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppression Equal in Faith: Fasting for Gender Justice By Rabbi Tamara Miller Yom Kippur Reading: fight for women’s equality in the Mor - Isaiah 58:4-9 mon Church has only just begun. Surely this is the fast I choose: To “Why do we women remain in reli - break open the shackles of gious institutions that marginalize us? wickedness, to undo the bonds of There are many reasons—belief, con - injustice, to let the oppressed go viction, the desire to serve, cultural free and annul all perversion... identity, family ties, political and soci - Then your light will burst out like etal influences, to name a few. The the dawn and your healing will point is if we care about a just society speedily sprout... Then you will and recognize that religions signifi - call and God will respond. You cantly impact the broader culture, we will cry out and God will answer all have a stake in this... we have a ‘Hineni, I am here!” choice. We can either perpetuate in - equality through silence and inaction, Holy troublemakers disturbed the Equal in Faith Leaders meet in DC: Lorie Winder, Ordain LDS or we can faithfully agitate and make peaceful setting inside the church Women; Kate Conmy, WOC; Carol Schmidt, Ordain Women Now- holy trouble.” of St. Stephen and the Incarnation Lutheran Church; Rabbi Tamara Miller, Women of the Wall; Rabia in Northwest Washington, DC on Chaudry, local Muslim feminist; Erin Saiz Hanna, WOC; Kate Kelly, Listening to the women from other Monday, August 26, when dozens Ordain LDS Women faith traditions, I realized that what of men and women concluded we do as a Jewish group for equitable their fasting for gender equality in rights for women in Israel or around Muslim woman, today it is used to oppress faith with a closing interfaith hour-long the world, affects all women of all faiths her. The misogyny found in Muslim com - service. Hundreds of others joined the live who struggle to find a way to serve God in munities is nothing but a defamation of the online streaming event from across the equal measure. life and message of the Prophet Muham - country. mad.” Rabia Chaudry gave voice to this message. I represented the Washington Friends of “Whether your struggle is ordination or Women of the Wall (WOW). This organiza - raising your voices at a sacred wall, know tion’s central mission is to achieve social Speaking up and speaking out that your Muslim sisters are with you as we and legal recognition of our right, as can agitate for advancement and find our way to God.” women, to wear tallit and tefillin, worship Many of my female contemporaries have and read from the Torah collectively and inclusivity in our religious witnessed significant progress in all our aloud at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. establishments. religious traditions. However, the tide can For my Catholic sisters, it means Women’s turn away from the privileges and the Ordination Worldwide, aka WOW. responsibilities we as women have ob - Carol Schmidt’s voice pleaded for a tained not just for ourselves, but also for In the Lutheran Church, Ordain Women future generations of daughters and grand - Now works to promote open discussion thoughtful discussion on the possibility of the ordination of women by the Lutheran daughters. Speaking up and speaking out within the Lutheran Church-Missouri can agitate for advancement and inclusivity Synod about the ordination of women. Women’s Missionary League, an auxiliary of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. in our religious establishments. The Mormon group, Ordain Women, advo - “Our greatest challenge in gathering people Our sacred unorthodox service ended with cates for the ordination of women in the a song and a clarion call for sisterhood as Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. to join in this call for discussion is the heavy handed threat that the Missouri we each added our names and our ribbons Over lunch, Erin Saiz Hanna, WOC’s Exec - Synod holds over its workers and their to the wreath symbolizing gender justice. utive Director, Lorie Winder and a group of families. To openly advocate for the ordina - “Sister, carry on. Sister, carry on. It may be Mormon feminists, cooked up Women’s tion of women can bring charges of heresy, rocky and it may be rough, but Sister carry Equality Day, a nation-wide fasting for gen - excommunication and job loss...we are on.” (Written by Carolyn McDade) der justice and the equitable inclusion of moving backward.” women in all religious traditions. Erin Saiz Hanna, WOC’s Executive Direc - Rabbi Tamara Miller, is one of the founders of The five all-women speakers sat together in tor, spoke on behalf of “the millions of the front pew. I sat next to Rabia Chaudry, a Washington Friends of the Women of the Wall, Catholics worldwide who stand firm in the WOW. She currently lives in Washington, D.C. Muslim woman and local attorney, who knowledge that God created women and spoke cogently about women in the Islamic men equally.” Unfortunately, she stated, the This article originally ran in Washington Jewish tradition. new pope, St. Francis, reiterated what the Weekly on September 11, 2013. “What is painful to me as someone who papacy has repeatedly professed. “Women loves Muhammad, that today, the treat - are special but not equal.” The injustices ment of women in Muslim lands and by continue. Muslim men is known to be unforgiving, Lorie Winder, an organizer of Ordain constricting, and sometimes brutal. Women from California, stated that the Whereas centuries ago faith liberated the

Fall 2013/Winter 2014 • www.womensordination.org 5 Ministry of Irritation Some Thoughts on the Suggestion to “Put Ordination Aside” By Kate Conmy

n was most supremely about maleness, in - Daly describes a “cloud of optimism” sur - “investigating stead of humanity. rounding, fogging the Church that allowed further the role “But, putting [women’s ordination] aside even herself to become addicted to arche - I typal manipulation. of women in the for the moment (which NCR does not do Church,” 1 leaders lightly), there are plenty of other stained- A similar weather pattern, the “Francis-ef - in the Catholic glass ceilings in this church that women fect,” has a public relations light so bright Church are asking could break if only he’d let them.” 5 that after the rain storms of Benedict, women to put In the same breath, NCR puts women’s or - Catholics only wish to see rainbows. These ordination aside. dination aside, and firmly places the con - rays have blinded even progressives who “If you remove it trol in the hands of “he,” Francis. When we are all too happy to open the windows (not Kate Conmy [the issue of women put ordination aside, we put aside the a door, for “the church has spoken and that priests], you’re able power to question what is most threatening is closed”) for any new air, just wide to talk about other really important to those whom the status quo affirms. Put - enough as to not disturb the sexism. These matters,” 2 Kerry Robinson, Executive ting ordination aside is putting God and windows for greater leadership roles for Director of the National Leadership God’s call aside, something we cannot af - women are indeed opportunities, but sweet Roundtable on Church Management ford to do. euphemisms ring hollow when consecra - explained at the launch of the “women’s tion is still gendered. Patriarchal institu - issue” of the Jesuit-run magazine, America . tions, Daly suggests perpetuate an Robinson and a small cohort of women “But throwing our own agenda “artificial environment of spiritual depriva - (who have family connections with some out is neither nuance nor tion and illusion” that wrongly attribute cardinals) have participated in private spiritual energy to “the very males who discussions with Vatican officials and negotiation, but a compromise on have betrayed us.” 9 Francis is a phenome - cardinals on “what obstacles exist to our understanding of the non in Rome, on the Internet, and on the prevent women from being included” 3 and agenda of every progressive Catholic or - detailed possible solutions. Reportedly, Body of Christ” ganization I know. But throwing our own their suggestions included expanding the agenda out is neither nuance nor negotia - number of women in professional roles in tion, but a compromise on our understand - major Vatican departments; increasing the “You have to take interim steps to bring ing of the Body of Christ. The mistake here number of women advisers to pontifical women into participation in the church, is to think that we are involved in a negoti - congregations and councils; restoring and you don’t start off by getting ordina - ation, where sides come together to sort out women to diaconal ministry; and tion. Personally, I think we need to look at a deal: everything but ordination pitted appointing women to the Vatican what we can do now and not lose opportu - against “radical feminism hostile to the 6 diplomatic corps and communications nities that are right in front of us.” Church.” 10 Yet “everything but ordination” apostolate. In a recent Tablet article, “Women in the asks Catholics to get excited about decorat - “Since ordination is off the table, some Church, How Far Can We Go?” Fr. Peter ing a tree with new lights, ornaments, bob - other solution must be sought that will lead Day urges his readers: “Indeed, as aspiring bles and balls, without looking at the root to a church in which women are, if not Christ-followers, are we not compelled to system, or worse, not looking to see that more important than priests and bishops, at challenge the ongoing patriarchal con - the tree itself has been long dead. least equally so, sharing equally in the gov - straints being imposed upon women If ordination is really to be put aside, let us ernance and guidance of the people of today? And, like him, must we not also re - look to what and who else is cast aside in God.” 4 fuse to allow custom, or habit, or closed our society and know that that is always minds, or the way we have understood The problem isn’t that women already where our work lies. things in the past, to hinder us from giving share equally in the governance and guid - women a voice; or, at the very least, having Kate Conmy is the Assistant Director of WOC. ance of the people of God, but that even if a mature and respectful debate about the She currently lives in Washington, D.C. women become part of these administra - issue?” 7 A thousand times yes, but Fr. Day tive and leadership roles equally with men, Notes concludes his article with the question: it is still a support system surrounding an 1 Spadaro SJ, Antonio. , America Magazine (New “Have you noticed how women are mar - exclusively male hierarchy. Simply advocat - York) “Big Open Heart to God,” Sep 30, 2013 ginalized in our Catholic Church?” (Accessed November 15, 2013). ing for women’s leadership, or “feminine genius,” in the Church is like saying you The double-take required to read these re - 2 Griffin, Beth. “Speakers See Vatican Openness can play baseball, but your team doesn’t get cent articles is astounding. It is so clear that to Including More Women in Church Roles,” women and men understand that the Vati - Catholic News Service, November 8, 2013 (ac - a bat. As Catholics we are responsible for cessed Nov 15, 2013). our clerical culture, if we do not address the can has a gender problem and yet with that 3 Ibid. clergy, who decides who is part of the knowledge and lived experience, we are clergy, and who is allowed to “be clergy,” asked to pivot away from the priesthood. 4 Cones, Bryan. “Finding Leadership Roles for then we simply dance around an altar of Mary Daly wrote of the reforms of Vatican Women in the Church,” US Catholic Magazine 78: 11 (2013), p. 8. oppression. If women cannot stand in the II: “It had appeared that a door had opened place of Christ at the altar then we perpetu - within patriarchy which could admit an ate the false notion that God’s incarnation endless variety of human possibilities.” 8 continued on page 9 6 New Women, New Church • Fall 2013/Winter 2014 Theological Perspectives Women as Pioneers at Vatican II By Ida Ramming

Introduction who had already campaigned for many too should not be in - As an event of vast scope concerned with years for political voting rights for women vited to attend the church policy, even after 50 years the Sec - in Switzerland, she was conscious of the Council. The reaction to ond Vatican Council still exerts a determi - fateful influence of misogynistic church at - this question was a native influence on theological discourse titudes on society in general. While work - mixture of embarrass - ing on her thesis on constitutional law and ment, indignation and within and outside the Roman Catholic Ida Raming Church. 1 Nevertheless, due consideration is church–state relations, she also prepared laughter. Finally the di - scarcely ever given to the fact that 50 per an extensive collection of texts from the rector of the German press centre, Bishop cent of the “people of God” (Dogmatic works of Thomas Aquinas with her own Kampe, half-reassuringly and half in jest, Constitution on the Church, Lumen gen - critical commentaries, to which she re - replied that women too would be able to at - 8 tium 9), weren’t even present at the Coun - ferred when preparing her contribution to tend “Vatican III!” the Council. cil initially. It was only from the third A petition to the Council (1963) session (September 1964) that a small group In our student days in the early 1960s at the of carefully selected women were allowed “I address you as a woman of our Catholic theology faculty of the University entry as so-called “auditors.” In a gripping of Munster, Müller and I critically examined book with the significant title Guests in own times who is well aware of her the grounds for excluding women from or - Their Own House, 2 Carmel McEnroy de - dination and this became part of the basis scribes the impressions and testimonies of sisters’ needs and problems...” for our submission to the Vatican Council in this tiny group of auditors. She tells of the 1963. At that time, the following were the very considerable misogyny of many con - arguments opposing ordination: ciliar “Fathers” at the beginning, and how, Her submission includes a critical rejection with the aid of a few courageous theolo - of the ontic depreciation of women (under 1. Women were subordinate to men in gians (such as Bernard Haring) and bishops the influence of Aristotelian ideas) in the the order of creation; 4 (Suenens, Malula, Coderre), they were able works of Aquinas , as well as deriving the 2. Women’s nature prevents them from to exert a definite though very limited in - possibility in principle and requirement of exercising a priestly ministry; fluence on a few formulations in the concil - women’s ordination from the favourable 3. Christ entered the world as a man; iar documents, in the last two phases of the pronouncements of Aquinas on the spiri - Council. Through the no more than sym - tual nature of humans and on the sacra - 4. Christ chose only men as apostles; bolic presence of a few women, an outside ments in general. 5. The apostle Paul’s pronouncements on initiative was able to affect this closed male In this she was guided by the hope that: “if the position of women, especially his conciliar society. the official Church were now to discard for - instructions on their behaviour during A number of legally and theologically mally the ballast of medieval natural doc - divine service (cf. 1 Cor. 11.2–16; 1 Cor. trained women, who had observed the trine on women, the way to women 14.34; 1 Tim. 2.11–15), and his preparations for the Council attentively, becoming priests would be open on the interpretation of woman as the image confronted this entirely male church as - basis of purified Thomist teaching, of the of the Church (Eph. 5.22ff), are sembly with their call for women to be actual philosophia rationalis with regard to irreconcilable with the transmission of ranked and valued in accordance with the humanity”. 5 the priesthood to women; times we live in. Further submissions to the 6. Even Mary herself as the Mother of The first petition to the Council Council: the debate becomes God did not receive the priesthood; for the ordination of women 7. The polarity of the sexes would have a more intense disturbing effect in the sanctuary; Swiss lawyer Gertrud Heinzelmann (1914– As might be expected, Heinzelmann’s peti - To date the church has kept unequivocally 99), holder of a doctorate in law, first raised tion elicited strong reactions for and the demand for women’s ordination pub - to its traditional views in this respect. against. Some Swiss newspapers made of - Müller and I refuted all these arguments licly and emphatically. In May 1962, even fensive attacks on the author and poured before the Council began, she sent a com - using the latest theological critique of that scorn and derision on her. On the other time period. 9 prehensive submission to the preparatory hand, positive reactions showed that Commission, which she introduced with “many people had been thinking along the It is remarkable that nowadays the church these rousing words: “I address you as a same lines ... at the same time”. 7 This was leadership should still cite most of these ar - woman of our own times who is well the source of the first contacts with guments, especially those derived from the aware of her sisters’ needs and problems... I New Testament, as evidence against the ad - trust that what I say will be taken as in - German women theologians. In 1959 one of mission of women to the priesthood, even tended: as the grievance and appeal of half them, Josefa Theresia Munch, a qualified though, according to the report of the Papal the human race; of female humankind, op - theologian, had already sent the Vatican Bible Commission of 1976, the New Testa - pressed for thousands of years and suffer - several (unpublished) requests for changes ment yields no sustainable arguments for ing a repression to which the Church with in canon law (c. 968 §1 CIC/1917) that ex - excluding women from the priestly min - its theory about women has contributed cluded women from sacramental ordina - istry. and still contributes in a way deeply harm - tion. At the first Germanlanguage press ful to the Christian conscience and aware - conference (October 1962), she posed the well-grounded question whether women ness.” 3 As a Catholic woman and lawyer continued on page 8

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Women as Pioneers at Vatican II...continued from page 7 Nevertheless, in its Declaration on the mission for the American press, which bly. The programmatic declaration from the Question of the Admission of Women to alerted Mary Daly for the first time to the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the the Ministerial Priesthood ( Inter insigniores ; existence of Heinzelmann’s submission. In modern world, Gaudium et spes (29), seems 1976, published 1977), the Sacred Congre - the 1960s Daly studied theology at the Uni - to echo the words of the encyclical: “All hu - gation for the Doctrine of the Faith disre - versity of Fribourg, and in 1964 became the mans are endowed with a rational soul and garded this research finding. first woman and American to be awarded a are created in God’s image; they have the A serious deadlock is apparent in the think - doctorate in theology there. same nature and origin and, being re - ing and judgement of the Vatican church deemed by Christ, they enjoy the same di - Collected petitions to vine calling and destiny; there is here a leadership, which still ignores the results of the Council exegetical, dogmatic and historical research basic equality between all humans and it that have been available for a long time. For Contacts with the abovementioned six must be given ever greater recognition... instance, the declaration Inter insigniores women led to the German-English book forms of social or cultural discrimination in still stresses the following: “...when Christ’s edited by Heinzelmann: Wir schweigen basic personal rights on the grounds of sex, role in the Eucharist is to be expressed nicht länger! Frauen äussern sich zum II. race, colour, social conditions, language or sacramentally, there would not be this ‘nat - Vatikanischen Konzil (1964). In addition to religion, must be curbed and eradicated as ural resemblance’ which must exist be - Heinzelmann’s petition, it contains the con - incompatible with God’s design.” tween Christ and his minister if the role of ciliar submissions of Munch and that of Christ were not taken by a man: in such a Muller and myself, as well as articles by case it would be difficult to see in the minis - Lauer and Daly from the time of the Coun - All humans are endowed with a ter the image of Christ. For Christ himself cil. For the first time, the book offers a sys - was and remains a man”. 10 tematic critical analysis of the various rational soul and are created in biblical and dogmatic grounds for exclud - God’s image; they have the same ing women from the priesthood. This nature and origin and, being A serious deadlock is apparent in analysis is the basis of a demand for full equality of rights in the ministry of the redeemed by Christ... the thinking and judgement of Roman Catholic Church. The book also in - sists on a reform of male-biased liturgical the Vatican church leadership, language (J. T. Munch’s contribution). This which still ignores the results of publication gave considerable impetus to Although this programmatic pronounce - exegetical, dogmatic and discussion of women’s ordination and their ment contains several important points of admission to the priestly ministry, and in - reference as well as prerequisites for over - historical research that have been fluenced conciliar proceedings, though at a coming the severe discrimination against later point. available for a long time. women within the Church (in particular Pacem in terris : human rights their exclusion from all offices of the or - for women dained priesthood merely because they are women), no reforms in this regard are de - With his 1963 encyclical Pacem in terris duced from those indications and condi - The two women theologians had already (1963), John XXIII, gave a firm impetus to argued against this notion in their submis - tions, or even contemplated in any way the women’s movement, which was at an whatsoever. sion: “it is to be asserted decisively that fun - early stage of development in the Church. damental significance is to be assigned only For the first time a papal encyclical treated Positive effects of “We won’t to the fact that Christ (or the Logos ) became women as subjects and bearers of human keep silence any longer!” human; the aspect of gender is wholly irrel - rights, for John XXIII assessed the move - evant here; for it is not Christ ‘becoming a The topic of women’s ordination was not ment for women’s emancipation as a “sign heard directly but was in fact taboo at the man‘ that has a redemptive function, but of the times that demanded consideration: solely his becoming a human being, in ac - Council assembly itself. This theme was Women, who are now increasingly con - raised expressly in only one intervention at cordance with the evidence of Scripture in scious of their human dignity, are very far Jn. 1.14; Phil. 2.6ff, and so on....” 11 the Council (October 1965), by Archbishop from allowing themselves to be treated as Paul Hallinan (Atlanta, GA). He not only re - Heinzelmann’s contribution to the Council some soulless material or as mere instru - quested that women should undertake the reached Iris Muller and myself in a round - ments; instead they seek to ensure that offices of readers and acolytes during di - about way. We were overjoyed that a they are accorded rights and duties, in vine service, but that women should be ad - Catholic woman from Switzerland was re - domestic life as in the State, that are appro - mitted to the office of deacon; and sponsible for this courageous initiative. In priate to the dignity of the human per - suggested furthermore that women should 1963 a personal meeting took place in Mun - son.”(22) “...if humans become conscious of take part in theological instruction and in ster between the women theologians their rights, they must become equally the revision of the Codex iuris canonici (Code Munch, Muller, myself and Heinzelmann. aware of their duties. Thus those who of Canon Law). His courageous proposal In 1963 news of the submission also possess certain rights have likewise the could be attributed to the direct influence brought an announcement from the USA duty to claim those rights as marks of their of the journalist and peritus (for the Ameri - by Dr Rosemary Lauer, who taught at St dignity, while all others have the obligation can bishops) Placidus Jordan OSB, who had John’s University (New York). She pub - to acknowledge those rights and respect disseminated the collected conciliar peti - lished several articles on the theme of them.” (24). tions in the American bishops’ conference ‘Women and the Church’ in the journal These were encouraging words, but also an and outside. 12 But this was shortly before Commonweal. She also commissioned an urgent warning that could not be passed English translation of Heinzelmann’s sub - over entirely, even in the conciliar assem - continued on page 14

8 New Women, New Church • Fall 2013/Winter 2014 Women Human Rights Defenders Resolution Passed at UN — Strong Resistance from the Vatican By Kate Conmy

ate November 2013, the first-ever Amnesty International called the conces - It should come as no surprise that the Vati - resolution on women human rights sions “deeply regrettable.” The consensus can is threatened by this resolution, but defenders was adopted by the came at the expense of a crucial paragraph their continued blindness to the lives of L containing language that had previously women threatens the Church’s very liveli - United Nations General Assembly’s Third Committee, taking a step forward in been agreed to by the General Assembly in hood. The African Union declared 2010- protecting those who face risks and attacks Resolution 67/144 on the Intensification of 2020 the Decade of the Woman—reflecting for their work to promote human rights, Efforts to Eliminate All Forms of Violence the increasing political, economic, and lead - including women’s rights. The landmark Against Women. Activists sadly high - ership roles women play in society. resolution draws attention to the lighted the irony that such language could A recent Der Spiegel article reported that extraordinary threats faced by women not be included in the very week of the In - African women are not only making strides human rights defenders, and calls on states ternational Day for the Elimination of Vio - as peacemakers, entrepreneurs, and politi - to stop criminalizing, stigmatizing and lence Against Women, marked on 25 cians but are also considered more reliable hindering the work of women human November. and successful international partners. In rights defenders. Geir Sjoberg, the Norwegian government’s crisis and war zones, women are not only Member states are asked to review and lead negotiator on the resolution celebrated more affected by conflict, but are the pri - amend their laws to ensure consistency the adoption, but added that the focus now mary peace and reconciliation workers. Re - with international human rights law. All must be to make sure governments are held portedly, international organizations prefer UN member states should publicly ac - to commitments made in the text: “There is to employ women, and women-led busi - knowledge the role of women human a great mismatch between realities for nesses and programs as more sustainable, rights defenders and condemn violence brave women on the ground and what was more successful, and less susceptible to cor - and discrimination against them. agreed today. The real work starts now.” ruption. According to the ATP report, several A report by Margaret Sekaggya, the UN Lindiwe Mazibuko, 33, is the opposition African nations, the Vatican, Iran, Russia, Special Rapporteur on Human Rights De - leader in South Africa’s National Assembly. China and conservative Muslim states fenders, creates a damning picture of just She is the first Black woman to hold that of - sought to weaken the resolution. In order how dangerous it is to be a woman human fice in the history of country’s overwhelm - to reach a consensus, the Norwegian-led rights defender: documented cases of death ingly male-dominated parliament. coalition, which prepared the resolution, threats, rape, smear campaigns, and the “Africa has millions of young, talented deleted language that said states should criminalization of their work by state au - women, but most of them don’t want to go “strongly condemn all forms of violence thorities. The report notes that male human into politics, because they are marginalized against women and women human rights rights defenders do not experience the there,” Mazibuko said. “Many African pres - defenders and refrain from invoking any same high rates of violence. idents are older than 70, while the average customs, traditions or religious considera - Women human rights defenders often age in Africa is about 19. These men know tion to avoid their obligations.” The Vatican “challenge traditional religious and cultural nothing about the realities of life for young led the opposition to this text, additionally values and practices which subordinate, men and women.” A dissonance familiar to refusing any reference to the risks incurred stigmatize or restrict women” when they many Catholics who both struggle to relate by activists working on the issue of sexual take up gender and sexual rights, said to their bishops, and find practical rele - and reproductive rights. Eleanor Openshaw of the International vance to Church teachings, particularly on More than thirty European countries, in - Service for Human Rights. The resistance the family. cluding Britain, France and Germany, with - of state actors, including the Vatican, ex - Mazibuko fights resistance and harassment drew as co-sponsors of the resolution in poses the deep fear of the work of women’s from her colleagues, and even President protest of the concession. rights activists, and the high political price Jacob Zuma, who publicly called her a nations will pay to ensure women remain derogatory Zulu term for “little girl.” second-class citizens. “Those are the usual sexist and racist insults coming from men who perceive a threat to their dominant position,” says Mazibuko. Some Thoughts on the Suggestion to “Put Ordination Aside”...continued from page 6 “But it isn’t something that can shock a feminist.” 5 Editorial, “It’s Time for Real Authority for 8 Mary Daly, The Church and the Second Sex Women in the Catholic Church,” National (Boston: Beacon Press, 1968), 17. It may be hard to shock a feminist these Catholic Reporter , October 5, 2013 (accessed Nov 9 Ibid., xiv. days, but it may shock the Vatican that, as 15, 2013). international lobby group, the ONE cam - 10 Preparatory Document for the Extraordinary 6 Dunne, Colleen and Meghan Fincher , paign claims: “Africa’s future is female.” General Assembly Pastoral Challenges to the “Women Resistant to Pope Francis’ Call for Family in the Context of Evangelization. And so is the future of the Church. New Theology,” National Catholic Reporter http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/synod/doc (Kansas City), November 4, 2013 (accessed No - Kate Conmy is WOC’s Assistant Director. uments/rc_synod_doc_20131105_iii-assemblea- vember 15, 2013). She currently lives in Washington, D.C. sinodo-vescovi_en.html (accessed November 7 Day, Peter. “Women in the Church: How Far 25, 2013). Can We Go?” The Tablet (London), November 21, 2013 (accessed November 15)

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ith a whose hand I loving “Why a Roman Catholic priest? held while we heart I walked and W My brief answer is that talked going to humbly submit to you a glimpse of I am called... and from su - how God is pervised working in my life parental visits as I continue to or for those listen to the call to and suffering. Why a Roman Catholic who were ministry. I am a Priest? My brief answer is that I am called going through Donnieau Snyder candidate to the to liturgical (sharing and spreading the an adoption Roman Catholic Gospel) and sacramental service. I have process. For Women Priesthood. It is an intriguing and been asked why don’t I leave the Catholic every teenager amazing path and I am so happy to share faith and join another Christian denomina - that ran away from a group home that I some of my experiences of my lifelong tion [that ordains women]. You might as would go and find I took the time to let journey following the call that God well ask to me to change the color of my them know that they are special beyond engraved in my heart. I joyfully share with skin —Catholicism cannot be removed what they could ever imagine regardless of you some of my experiences of how being a from the core of who I am. My Roman what they thought or felt about themselves Catholic has had an impact not so much my Catholic faith teaches me to follow Christ as and the experiences they had endured. I answering God’s call but rather the impact well as to follow my conscience. Where I also provide mental health services to of answering God’s call. This journey is in was rooted is where my heart has been youth and young adults experiencing God’s hands and I willingly and planted. One of the teachings regarding schizophrenia and early onset of psychosis passionately gravitate toward the call. following conscience that I turn to comes and I walk with them in their journey that from St. Thomas Aquinas. He strongly sup - is often times filled with fear but it is the I knew from a very early age there was a ported the rights of conscience when he hope that we discover together that brings stirring in my heart to be of service to oth - said, “Anyone upon whom the ecclesiastical about a healing for their soul. In the men - ers. Even as early as the second grade I authority, in ignorance of the true facts, im - tal health field we are now recognizing that knew the stirring was the Holy Spirit work - poses a demand that offends against [sic] one’s faith should not be discounted and ing within me and I knew I was called to be his clear conscience, should perish in ex - through my interfaith dialogues much a priest but for someone so young the mes - communication rather than violate [sic] his hope and healing takes place for the sage for the journey ahead was yet to re - conscience.” To my very root I fear God not wounds that no medicine can mend. It is in veal itself. The call to ministry transformed those who dare to stand in God’s way. all of those moments I recognize my obedi - as I became older. The call began as a beau - ence of my call to serve God. tiful stirring in my heart until it manifested into a message that has become as loud as I have worshipped with a Roman Catholic the roar of the ocean. During my childhood “You might as well ask me to community presided by a women priest and teen years I would share God’s beauti - change the color of my skin— and now I have begun forming another ful message with those with whom I felt worship community where I live. These ex - safe with but my fondest and most pro - Catholicism cannot be removed periences and blessings give me my found “a-ha moment” happened during from the core of who I am” grounding and help me to see I am no my first public profession of my call. longer a stranger in a strange land. When I am asked if men and women equally repre - During that public moment I was not con - sent Christ in ministry I can say, “the heart demned—I was lifted up. In that moment I provide ministry in much of the work I has no gender, and if God is love, then re - something transformational happened. I do. It has taken the form of working with gardless of biological differences, women felt as if my entire being was on fire — not mothers in need of someone who believed and men rightly represent Christ in min - consumed by it rather a fire that had stirred in their abilities as they were working hard istry.” from the deepest part of myself and it to get clean and sober while trying to get Donnieau Snyder is a licensed marriage and spread and danced as it moved throughout their children back from social services sys - family therapist. She provides mental health my entire body. During that experience my tem. I may not have been able to provide counseling and teaches aspiring marriage mind was flooded with an overwhelming the sacrament of the anointing of the sick in and family therapists. She currently lives in sense of joy and the two—the fire and the a formal manner but for every foster child I Ceres, Calif. joy—could not be separated nor could they held tightly while in the emergency room be described separately. The fire continues past midnight because she or he was too to burn within me. sick and needed immediate medical care With that public profession came questions. was just one way of how I shared Christ’s I am often asked why I want to become a message of love and caring for others. My priest if the road ahead leads to sacrifice call to serve God took place for every child

10 New Women, New Church • Fall 2013/Winter 2014 Ministry of Prophetic Obedience El Inicio del caminar de una extraña en una tierra extraña By Donnieau Snyder

on corazón Con esa declaración pública llegaron las la sala de emergencia pasada la mediano - amoroso, preguntas. A menudo me preguntan por che porque él o ella estaba demasiado en - humildeme qué quiero convertirme en sacerdotisa si el fermo/a y necesitaba cuidado médico C camino a seguir conduce al sacrificio y su - inmediato, fue solo una de las maneras en nte les presento a ustedes un destello frimiento. ¿Por qué una sacerdotisa de la que compartí el mensaje de Cristo de amar de cómo Dios está Iglesia Católica Romana? Mi respuesta y cuidar a los demás. Mi llamado de servir actuando en mi breve es que estoy llamada a lo litúrgico (a a Dios tuvo lugar por cada niño cuyas vida mientras compartir y propagar el Evangelio) y al ser - manos sostuve mientras caminábamos y continúo vicio sacramental. Me han preguntado por hablábamos, yendo y viniendo a visitas su - escuchando la qué no dejo la fe Católica y me uno a otra fe pervisadas de padres o aquellos que esta - Donnieau Snyder llamada al [que ordena mujeres]. Por qué más bien no ban atravesando por un proceso de ministerio. Soy una adopción. Por cada adolescente que se es - capó de un hogar de grupo al que yo fui y candidata al Sacerdocio de Mujeres de la ¿Por qué una sacerdotisa de la Iglesia Católica Romana. Es un caminar encontré, tomé el tiempo de hacerles saber fascinante y maravilloso, y estoy tan feliz Iglesia Católica Romana? Mi que eran especiales, mucho más de lo que de compartir algunas de mis experiencias pudieran imaginar, sin importar lo que pen - sobre mi jornada de vida siguiendo el respuesta breve es que estoy saran sobre sí mismos y de las experiencias llamado que Dios ha grabado en mi llamada a lo litúrgico (a que habían tenido que soportar. También, corazón. Comparto gozosamente con doy servicios de salud mental a jóvenes y ustedes algunas de mis experiencias de compartir y propagar el adultos jóvenes que experimentan esquizo - cómo el ser una católica ha tenido un Evangelio) y al servicio frenia e inicios de sicosis, y camino junto a impacto no tanto en mi respuesta al ellos en su viaje que está a menudo lleno de llamado de Dios sino en el impacto que el sacramental. temores, pero es la esperanza que descubri - responder a la llamada ha tenido. Este mos juntos lo que conduce a una sanación viaje está en manos de Dios, y yo con de su alma. En el campo de la salud mental pasión, tiendo hacia la llamada. me piden que cambie el color de mi piel – ahora estamos reconociendo que la fe de el Catolicismo no se puede quitar, está en lo una persona no debe ser descontada y a Supe desde tierna edad que en mi corazón más profundo de mí. Es parte de mi ser. Mi través de mis diálogos interreligiosos se había una agitación para servir a otros. Tan fe Católica Romana me enseña que debo se - produce mucha esperanza y sanación para temprano como en segundo grado de ele - guir a Cristo tanto como mi propia cons - las heridas que ninguna medicina puede mental, supe que esta agitación era el Espí - ciencia. Allí donde eché raíces es donde ha proporcionar. Es en todos esos momentos ritu Santo actuando dentro de mí y que era sido plantado mi corazón. Una de las ense - que reconozco mi obediencia al llamado de llamada a ser una sacerdotisa. El llamado al ñanzas sobre seguir tu propia consciencia servir a Dios. ministerio se transformó con la edad. El lla - viene de Santo Tomás de Aquino. Él apo - mado comenzó como una hermosa agita - He rendido culto con una comunidad Ro - yaba firmemente los derechos de la cons - mana Católica presidida por una mujer sa - ción en mi corazón, hasta que se manifestó ciencia cuando dijo: «Cualquier persona a como un mensaje que se ha hecho tan en - cerdote y ahora he iniciado la formación de quien las autoridades eclesiásticas, en igno - otra comunidad de culto en donde yo vivo. sordecedor como el estruendo del océano. rancia de los hechos verdaderos, impongan Durante mi niñez y adolescencia, compartía Estas experiencias y bendiciones me arrai - una demanda que vaya contra su clara gan y me ayudan a ver que ya no soy una los hermosos mensajes de Dios con quienes consciencia, debe perecer en excomunión me sentía segura, pero mi momento de re - extraña en una tierra extraña. Cuando me antes que violar su propia consciencia». En preguntan si los hombres y las mujeres re - velación más profunda ocurrió durante la lo más hondo de mi ser yo temo a Dios no a primera declaración pública de mi llamado. presentan igualmente a Cristo en el minis - aquellos que se atreven a interponerse en terio puedo decir: «El corazón no tiene Durante ese momento público, no fui con - su camino. genero, y si Dios es amor, entonces sin con - denada – fui elevada. En ese instante suce - Yo brindo ministerio en gran parte del tra - siderar diferencias biológicas, las mujeres y dió algo transformador. Sentí como si mi bajo que hago. Ha tomado la forma de tra - los hombres representan con todo derecho ser entero estaba en llamas – no consumida bajar con madres necesitadas de alguien a Cristo en el ministerio». por ellas sino un fuego que surgía de lo más que crea en sus habilidades mientras traba - Donnieau Snyder es terapeuta con licencia para profundo de mí, que se expandía y danzaba jaban duro para recuperarse de adicciones mientras se movía por todo mi cuerpo. Du - matrimonios y familias. Ella brinda asistencia y recobrar la custodia de sus hijos del sis - para la salud mental y enseña a aspirantes de te - rante esa experiencia mi mente estaba inun - tema de servicios sociales. Quizás no he po - dada con una sobrecogedora sensación de rapia familiar y matrimonial. Donnieau vive en dido dar el sacramento de unción de los Ceres, California. alegría y los dos – el fuego y la alegría – no enfermos de una manera formal, pero por podían ser separados ni descritos aparte. El cada niño/a que se encontraba en un hogar fuego sigue ardiendo dentro de mí. de acogida, a quien abracé fuertemente en

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usto antes de Acción de Gracias, el Papa de liderazgo de las mujeres es vital, y algo ordenación de las mujeres, en vez de man - Francisco publicó su Evangelii Gaudium que la Conferencia de Ordenación de la tenerse atascado en el pasado y repetir las conocido como un plan de acción de su Mujer (WOC de sus siglas en inglés) ha de - prácticas y reglas no sustanciadas que ya no J fendido por décadas, el hecho es que las sirven a nuestra Iglesia ni mundo. papado. Como la naturaleza humilde, pastoral del Papa Francisco, la mayor parte mujeres son llamadas por Dios para servir a Para un Papa que no quiere « potestad de este documento de 84 páginas se ganará todo el mundo, al igual que sus hermanos sacramental demasiado identificada con el el corazón de muchos católicos. Al leer el sacerdotes. Para un Papa que parece estar poder», de hecho, él sí ha tratado de ejercer documento, yo también estaba realmente muy en sintonía con los marginados, ¿cómo su poder sobre la discusión de la ordena - haciéndole barra a Francisco cuando él dijo: es que no ve que los marginados también ción de la mujer. El Papa Francisco dijo que «No puede ser que no sea noticia que necesitan ser servidos por mujeres al igual «la Iglesia ha hablado y ha dicho que no ». muere de frío un anciano en situación de que por hombres; que las mujeres son parte El Papa Juan Pablo II trató de darle término calle y que sí lo sea una caída de dos puntos de los fieles y están completamente listas, a la conversación sobre la ordenación de la en la bolsa de valores». Sí. Esto es lo que dispuestas y son capaces de servir al pueblo mujer en 1994 cuando publicó ese docu - Jesús diría. Esto es ser católico/católica. Esto de Dios? ¿Cómo no puede ser su sentido de mento. Él no triunfó, todavía estamos ha - es justicia social. justicia social extendido a las mujeres de la blando del tema. El Papa Francisco Iglesia y a su capacidad para el ministerio tampoco pondrá fin a la discusión. Seguire - Luego él señaló: « Reconozco con gusto de las santas órdenes? cómo muchas mujeres comparten respons - mos hablando, sirviendo en roles sacra - abilidades pastorales junto con los sacer - Este mayo que viene se celebra el vigésimo mentales y ministeriales, y haciendo dotes, contribuyen al acompa ñamiento de aniversario de Ordinatio Sacerdotalis , la carta camino con nuestra palabra. personas, de familias o de grupos y brindan apostólica escrita por el Papa Juan Pablo II, En los meses que vienen, mientras nos pre - nuevos aportes a la reflexión teológi ca. Pero la cual declaró toda discusión sobre la orde - paramos para el vigésimo aniversario de todavía es necesario ampliar los espa cios nación de la mujer oficialmente cerrada. este documento anacrónico, WOC en con - para una presencia femenina más incisiva En su tristemente célebre entrevista, ofre - junto con WOW (Women’s Ordination en la Iglesia». Me sentí llena de esperanza. cida a reporteros en ruta a Roma de la Jor - Worldwide/Movimiento Mundial a favor de Si sólo se hubiese detenido allí. nada Mundial de la Juventud, el Papa la Ordenación de la Mujer), recogerá cartas Francisco se refirió a este documento di - Pero no lo hizo. Con su oración siguiente, de fieles católicos que apoyan la ordenación ciendo: «sobre la ordenación de las mujeres, de la mujer y reconocen que las mujeres, me rompería el corazón al igual que tantos la Iglesia se ha pronunciado y ha dicho que Papas del pasado. Él continuó esa gloriosa como los hombres, son ambos creados a no. Juan Pablo II, en una formulación defi - imagen y semejanza de Dios, y también lla - oración tratando de poner a las mujeres de nitiva dijo que esa puerta está cerrada». regreso en su propio lugar y declarando al madas a servir a todo el pueblo de Dios, en mundo que la ordenación de la mujer no Es importante notar el uso de la expresión todas formas y maneras incluso las órdenes ocurrirá bajo su pontificado. Hasta se ase - «definitiva», porque Ordinatio Sacerdotalis sagradas. Habrá una vigilia de oración rea - guró de reiterar que ni siquiera deberíamos nunca fue declarado un documento infali - lizada por la delegación de defensoras de la discutir el asunto. ble, tampoco se utilizó la palabra infalible ordenación de la mujer; ellas entregarán en el documento, sin mencionar que fue fir - personalmente al Vaticano las cartas de mu - En el documento Francisco declara: « El sac - mado por el Cardenal Joseph Ratzinger, y jeres que sienten la llamada y de aquellas erdocio reservado a los hombres, como no por el Papa Juan Pablo II (lo que significa personas que se hacen presentes para de - signo de Cristo Esposo que se da en la Eu - que es más fácil de revertir). El Papa Fran - fender la justicia en la Iglesia. caristía, es una cuestión que no se pone en cisco podría, de hecho, abrir oficialmente la discusión, pero puede volverse par ticular - Si te interesa enviar una carta o unirte a no - discusión si él así lo quisiera, pero en su sotras en esta delegación, envíame un men - mente conflictiva si se identifica demasia do lugar ofrece a los fieles católicos explicacio - la potestad sacramental con el poder». saje electrónico a nes refutables en vez de volver a leer esos [email protected]. El Papa En donde Francisco se equivoca es en suge - documentos y descubrir por sí mismo que Francisco es conocido por responder a algu - rir que estamos buscando la ordenación no tienen bases teológicas, filosóficas, ecle - nas de las cartas que recibe. Quizás res - simplemente como un medio de conseguir siásticas, ni en las Escrituras. Este papa ne - ponda la tuya. poder. Mientras que el poder de decisión y cesita educarse sobre el tema de la

12 New Women, New Church • Fall 2013/Winter 2014 Book Review Carol Ganim. Being Out of Order: The Prophetic Generation of Nuns and Sisters St. Petersburg, FL: Vandamere Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-918339-77-5. $19.95 Reviewed by Kate Conmy Being Out of Order: The Prophetic Generation There is a sense of cinema to some of and self-empower - of Nuns and Sisters by Carole Ganim is a re - Ganim’s stories, as the young novices trip ment trials. The freshingly practical retelling of her journey over themselves to be obnoxiously pious book traces the as an Ursuline sister from 1956 to 1972. Of - (“No, Sister, after you!”), to a note delivered losses of those who fering verisimilitude to the often-obscured to the girls with an annual “God’s Will” up - left the convent life of a young novitiate, Ganim’s voice date (Ganim’s was terrifyingly left blank and those who brings color to a generation who transi - one year). But unlike many cinematic por - stayed, and the tioned from “Sister Formation” to the trayals of nuns and sisters—flat caricatures losses of a Church changes of Vatican II to the women’s libera - often assigned to women—depth comes as unable to truly tion movement of the 1960s and 1970s in our narrator encounters the three dimen - know women. Ganim also sketches some the United States. Interviewing over sions of systemic oppression as a sister: conclusions of what the future of religious twenty sisters and friends, Ganim traces poverty, chastity, and obedience. The life might look like as women continue to her own formation from breaking up with Church took a generation of “unwitting define commitment on their own terms. her high school boyfriend and being so prophets,” confronting medieval and con - The most common question our author nervous that she ran her yellow Studebaker temporary patriarchy, and asked them to hears now is: “Are you sorry you left? Do convertible into a curb, to her eventual make full commitments without being fully you miss it?” Questions that many “breaking” of her vows sixteen years later. in the world, or fully human. No longer Catholics ask themselves as the locus of a Being Out of Order is a generous reflection. sublimating subservience with holiness, life-giving religion drifts farther and farther Ganim dances a line of irreverence and Ganim dismantles each vow and how each from the parish steps. Of course, the an - comedy to describe the sincerity, confusion, “took us away from our humanity... and swer is always yes and no, yes and no. But and genuine vocation of her time in the therefore our godliness” (124). in a time of “Nuns on the Bus” celebrity, convent. Using only first names, the story When Ganim left the convent in 1972, not and flushes of a genre of “sister-stories,” trustingly resembles a familial storytelling only was society asking new questions this work reminds us of the true breath of session, leaving no adolescent curiosity un - about the roles of women, but “theology vocation: the yes and no of an institution, turned (e.g., “do nuns menstruate?”). was asking new questions” (165). In her the ordinary and the extraordinary journey These are the voices of friends, of women early thirties, Ganim had earned her Ph.D. of women who follow God. you know, and of the arrested development in English, a couple hundred dollars, and a Kate Conmy is the Assistant Director of WOC of so many Catholics. lot of “worldly” experience to gain, shared and currently lives in Washington, D.C. in stories of dating fumbles, style faux pas,

Review of Sister Trouble: The Vatican, the Bishops, and the Nuns by Marian Ronan. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. 119 pages, $10.64. Reviewed by Mary E. Hunt Longtime WOC colleague Marian Ronan in the equation. Still, the damage has been tuality, over decades. has done a real service with her book Sister done to even suggest that U.S. women reli - Like any group, the Trouble: The Vatican, the Bishops, and the gious are anything but stalwart citizens of nuns will have the oc - Nuns. This collection of her essays on Amer - church and world. Happily, the women casional weak link in ican nuns and their struggles with the Vati - themselves report that the intrusion only the chain, but for the can functions as a good overview of a bad served to reinforce ties among them and to most part their his - situation. enhance their clarity about what is really tory as told in the The story is well known—U.S. women reli - important. marvelous exhibit gious took Vatican II seriously and live in a Ronan captures the sentiment of many Women and Spirit: wide variety of faithful, committed ways. It Catholics, indeed of those who push for Catholic Sisters in is hard to find sisters who are living the Nun Justice , when she writes that her pur - America is a proud and unique one. That high life—the occasional new fleece jacket pose is “helping U.S. Catholic sisters, now they have been put upon by the likes of and eco-conscious cars are more like it— and in the future, to say what they need to Vatican types remains scandalous. and easy to find “green nuns” whose sim - say when they are ready to say it, and to She writes with a Philadelphia Catholic’s ple lifestyles presaged today’s trend toward feel supported by Catholics like me who good grammar and clear prose, leaving no lighter footsteps on the planet. Still, in the owe them a very great deal” (p. 9). Much question where she stands. We learn about midst of priest pedophilia and cover-ups by remains to be said by the nuns themselves her own commitments, her passion for Joan bishops the Vatican unleashed both an that prudence dictates they guard for now. of Arc, and the positive impact of Catholic Apostolic Visitation of many of the active So this kind of forthright assessment by education on her subsequent life. It is an oft communities and a Doctrinal Investigation someone who is not a nun, albeit a member told story but one that Ronan tells with of the Leadership Conference of Women of the Grail and a church historian, is wel - panache. I recommend this book as a re - Religious (LCWR). come. minder that good work resounds for gener - The LCWR case ended with a watchdog Ronan is not sentimental in her assessment ations while dastardly deeds find no echo. committee assigned to oversee it. The other of strong, smart women who have done Mary E. Hunt is director of WATER, Women’s shoe remains to drop, or not, on the visita - good work in health, education, and social Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual in tion process with Pope Francis a wildcard welfare, not to mention ministry and spiri - Washington, D.C.

Fall 2013/Winter 2014 • www.womensordination.org 13 Book Review Marie S. David. Sacred Heart Songs . Bloomington, IN: Balboa Press, 2013. ISBN 978–1–45257–884–2. 202 pages. $14.95 paperback; hard copy $33.95; E-book $3.99. Reviewed by Andrea M. Johnson Sacred Heart Songs, by Marie S. David, is a specifically, the healing effect of energy changing and a spiritually rich experience book for spiritual seekers who want whole - work known as Reiki. which can be shared with others in a way ness in their lives—who seek to integrate The elements of prayer that became key for that is more “being with” than “doing for.” all of their experience—whether perceived her transformation from hard-working and The author relates these new understand - as positive, negative or somewhere in be - successful, yet always exhausted seeker, to ings of health and healing to issues such as tween. It is for people who want to hold contemplative listener, focusing on God’s dealing with work overload, with loss and their life experience in the light of their re - love and compassion, forgiveness and heal - grief, and with many other phenomena we lationship with the Divine. ing, and Source of unconditional accept - have in common as human beings. We Author Marie David is an accomplished ance, are explored. David stresses solitude, have a choice, says David. We can either ab - teacher and administrator in the field of going within, realizing that God is waiting sorb our pain back into ourselves, or we can special education. She is also a spouse and for us to enter that sacred space willingly, share it with the Divine within, releasing it a mother, a Reiki Master, and a Roman letting go of control over the outcome. to the One who can heal, and transform it Catholic woman priest. Raised in the Truth and peace can be lost, says David, in into blessing. Catholic faith of her New England family of the busyness of life. Only by opening our - Finally, discussing the five basic principles French ancestry, David shares with us the selves to letting go of what is “not truly us” of Reiki (having to do with worry, anger, joys and the struggles of her growing up can we release unfinished business form gratitude, letting go, and kindness), Rev. years; of her love for the religious tradition, the past, and turn our souls into that heal - Marie David offer her readers an opportu - shared with her by her beloved grand - ing space we so desire. It is both a great joy nity for true and expansive spiritual growth mother; and also, her difficulty (not unre - and very empowering to read her account in compassion and wholeness. Sacred Heart lated to her childlike conceptualization of of this inward journey. Songs is a wonderful read, and a resource feminine virtue), in finding her own voice. In the latter part of the book, she turns her you will want to keep handy in your prayer In Sacred Heart Songs, David shares the attention to how the practice of Reiki—or space. growth in her way of understanding her the prayerful sharing of energy—can heal Andrea M. Johnson, RCWP, is a former WOC own self-realization, by first finding a new us by bringing us out of our perceived iso - Executive Director, served on the WOC board and more intimate way to relate to God in lation, and into the realm of health and for many years, and now lives in Annapolis, prayer. In so doing, she taps into unex - wholeness meant for all living things. Ac - MD. plored riches of Christian spirituality— cepting this healing is consciousness-

Women as Pioneers at Vatican II...continued from page 8 the end of the Council, so that the Arch - the priesthood. He did not elevate them 3. G. Heinzelmann, Wir schweigen nicht länger! bishop’s intervention was not reflected in thus, not in order to accord with a human We Won’t Keep Silence Any Longer! Frauen the conciliar documents. tradition of the world around him at the äussern sich zum II. Vatikanischen Konzil , Zurich, 1964, p. 20. time, but out of respect for the order of cre - Reactions to “We won’t keep ation and God’s plan of salvation, both of 4. ‘Women are subject to men on account of their silence any longer!” which call for male dominance: the su - inherent natural weakness and because of the strength of the male intellect and physique .... Women and the church certainly became a premacy of the old Adam and the new Man is the principle for woman and her objec - 14 more vital topic outside the actual Council Christ...” The entire article is so to speak a tive just as God is the principle for the creature in its final phase. Immediately before the harbinger of later pronouncements of the as a whole and its objective...‘ G. Heinzelmann, end of the Council (November 1965), with Vatican church leadership directed against op. cit. supra , pp. 25–6. express reference to “We won’t keep silence the notion of women priests ( Inter In - 5. G. Heinzelmann, Die geheiligte Diskriminierung. any longer...!” though significantly without signiores , 1977; Ordinatio Sacerdotalis , 1994). Beiträge zum kirchlichen Feminismus , Bonstetten, any more detailed bibliography, the Osser - Both before and during the Council, those 1986, p. 97. vatore Romano published an entire series of pioneer women, and later many other 6. Ibid., p. 112. articles on La donna e il Sacerdozio major theologians, men and women, have 7. Ibid., p. 90. (Women and the Priesthood) by the tradi - offered reasoned objections to these ideas. 8. Ibid., p. 121. tionalist Franciscan priest Gino Concetti. It is scandalous that the positive conse - He wrote in his introduction: “The atmos - quences of these analyses, insights and 9. Cf. G. Heinzelmann, ‘Wir schweigen...‘, op. cit. , phere of zealous initiatives which preceded claims are still outstanding. pp. 61–76 and I. Muller & G. Raming, Unser Leben im Einsatz... , op. cit ., , pp.136–54. and accompanied Vatican II led to many Translated by J. G. Cumming others, including one that attempts to draw 10. Inter Insigniores , No. 5. the attention of the responsible hierarchy to Notes 11. G. Heinzelmann ‘Wir schweigen...‘, op. cit. , the extension of the ministerial priesthood 1. The article is based on: Ida Raming, ‘Frauen p. 66; cf. I. Muller & G. Raming, Unser Leben im to women.” 13 stehen auf gegen Diskriminierung und En - Einsatz ..., op. cit. , p. 142. trechtung des weiblichen Geschlechts in der 12. Cf. G. Heinzelmann, Die geheiligte Diskrim - His final conclusion, based on traditional Kirche‘, in: Iris Muller & Ida Raming, Unser inierung ..., op. cit ., p. 138. texts discriminating against women, is as Leben im Einsatz für Menschenrechte der Frauen in follows: “If he had wanted to, Christ would der römischkatholischen Kirche , Munster, 2007, 13. G. Heinzelmann, Die getrennten Schwestern. Frauen nach dem Konzil , Zurich, 1967, p. 99. have singled out women...for elevation to pp. 220–48. 2. The Women of Vatican II , New York, 1996. 14. Ibid.

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