Voices Carry: The Fight for Women’s Rights in the Catholic Church by Angela Bonavoglia
November 19, 2008
For a long time now, long enough for the Catholic Church to shrink more than any other denomination in the United States, the targets of its greatest condemnation have been women and the men who support them. While losing 30 million followers in recent years, the church has saved its most incendiary rhetoric and most extreme acts of censure for those who are pro-choice or pro-ordination.
http://www.womensmediacenter.com/ex/111908.html
Can the Catholic Church enforce excommunication?By Christopher Beam
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
The Vatican plans to excommunicate the Rev. Roy Bourgeois next week for ordaining a woman as a priest. Excommunicated priests must stop performing their clerical duties and can no longer take communion (although they can still attend Mass). But does the Catholic Church have any way of enforcing this punishment?
http://www.slate.com/id/2204585/
November 19, 2008
For a long time now, long enough for the Catholic Church to shrink more than any other denomination in the United States, the targets of its greatest condemnation have been women and the men who support them. While losing 30 million followers in recent years, the church has saved its most incendiary rhetoric and most extreme acts of censure for those who are pro-choice or pro-ordination.
http://www.womensmediacenter.com/ex/111908.html
Can the Catholic Church enforce excommunication?By Christopher Beam
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
The Vatican plans to excommunicate the Rev. Roy Bourgeois next week for ordaining a woman as a priest. Excommunicated priests must stop performing their clerical duties and can no longer take communion (although they can still attend Mass). But does the Catholic Church have any way of enforcing this punishment?
http://www.slate.com/id/2204585/
>"For a long time now, long enough for the Catholic Church to shrink more than any other denomination in the United States,..."
ReplyDeleteUm, when did this alleged shrinking occur? According to every census and survey the Catholic Church in America has been growing by about 1.1 million annually. Worldwide the church has been growing by about 17-18 million sustained for several years.
http://www.the-tidings.com/2006/0707/population.htm
http://www.wfn.org/2008/02/msg00105.html
God bless... +Timothy