Word: laywomen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COEDS: Girls have invaded what was once an exclusively male world; this year there are 198 females, mostly laywomen, among the Greg's 2,858 students. The majority are in the Institute of Religious Sciences for the Laity or the social sciences department, but a pert German blonde, Hannalore Oesterle, 25, is studying in the department of theology, planning to get a doctorate and return to Germany to become religious editor of a newspaper...
...renewal movement is the fact that women, as well as men, are calling for further church reform. Since the end of the Second Vatican Council, the church in the U.S. has been subject to a paper barrage of theological journalism produced by young, concerned, college-educated Catholic laywomen. Invading the traditional masculine province of theology, these teachers, writers, editors (and housewives) have challenged existing attitudes toward contraception, divorce and, more recently, wider questions involving other doctrines of the church. Three of these lively damsels-errant have recently produced books that suggest the range and style of Catholicism's feminine...
...school students is especially impressive when measured against evidence that the quality of teaching they receive is erratic and classroom conditions less than ideal. About 47% of the sisters teaching in high schools have a master's degree; but only one-fourth of the fast-growing body of laywomen teachers in elementary schools have had more than one year of college work. Thanks to the generally low pay scale of Catholic education-laywomen in elementary schools average $3,250 a year-and to lay teachers' widespread conviction that they are treated as second-class citizens, even poorly trained...
Conversely, the Rev. Walter Brueggemann of Missouri's Eden Theological Seminary, a United Church of Christ minister, teaches Old Testament to nuns and laywomen studying theology at Roman Catholic Webster College near St. Louis, and an Episcopal priest, the Rev. Donald Winslow, is teaching early church history at Weston College, the Jesuit seminary near Boston. On the student level, seminaries are frequently nondenominational in fact, if not quite yet in name. Harvard's divinity school currently has 14 Catholic students, while Union has 17-including several priests and a nun. Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati has 28 Protestant...
...church reform has been balanced by a desire to conciliate the Curia professionals he must work with in governing the church. Last week, however, Paul indicated that his sympathies still lie with prudent change. He announced that for the first time in church history a select few nuns and laywomen would attend the council as auditors. And to open the third session, he planned to celebrate a pontifical Mass together with 24 bishops from around the world. Concelebration is an ancient practice restored to the Roman rite by the second session's far-reaching liturgical constitution; it is also...