Word: laywomen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heads of women's religious orders, other nuns, laywomen-some 1,200 in all-met in Detroit last November to discuss and coordinate their cause. Says Elizabeth Carroll, a Sister of Mercy working at Washington's Center of Concern: "The arguments for women in the priesthood are unassailable." The bishops do not agree. Archbishop Bernardin argues that "serious theological objections" still stand in the way of women priests. Many Catholics are open to the idea, however, including an elderly woman at St. Columbkille's. "If a woman wants to be a priest, that's fine with...
...overall lack of female representation has caused religious orders of women, and laywomen, to fight for female equality. The ordination of women as priests is a long way off, if it ever comes, but a revival of the office of deaconess may not be so distant. More immediately, the National Council of Catholic Women is seeking smaller concessions, such as proportional representation of women on diocesan commissions...