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...bishops meet in Washington to wrestle with the church's controversial policies on women. Activists believe they are caught up in one of Christendom's great and historic transformations. "The last time there was such a ground swell that was not heeded was the Protestant Reformation," says feminist Sandra Schneiders, an Immaculate Heart sister teaching at California's Jesuit School of Theology...
...women and men who arrive in church on Sunday morning and find controversy where they least expect it. Words to prayers and hymns they have cherished since childhood are gradually changing. Denominations that once would not tolerate divorced ministers now find themselves debating whether to accept avowed lesbian ones. Feminist theologians are searching for new ways of conceiving God himself -- or herself -- as Mother, Wisdom, Sophia, Goddess...
...others point to women who have formed separatist "Women-Church" worship, a New Age blend of feminist, ecological, neopagan and Christian elements. One book offers liturgies to celebrate the coming-out of lesbians, teenagers' first menstrual period and cycles of the moon. In an Ash Wednesday rite, women repent not of their own sins but of the sins the church commits | against women. Last month, 30 members of Chicago Catholic Women gathered to chant, "I am a woman giving birth to myself; bless what I bring forth," and then shared eucharistic bread and wine -- without once uttering the name...
...idea that only a male can represent Christ at the altar is a most serious heresy," but backed down when Anglo-Catholics objected. Those who support women's ordination insist that what matters theologically is that God became human, not that he became male. Sister Joan Chittister, a feminist Benedictine in Erie, Pennsylvania, says focusing on ) males "flies in the face of the theology of the Incarnation that says Jesus became flesh, your flesh and mine just as well." She calls this "a theological tragedy, far deeper than any sort of social oppression...
...Mansfield's tendentious phrasing--"Feminist scholars...should prove themselves as other scholars do without the advantage of an affirmative action program that makes their biased non-scholarship immediately legitimate...