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Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...
From the start of his papacy Francis called for structural change in the Church which will foster the responsibility of the laity now held "at the edge of the decisions" by "excessive clericalism", and to "create still broader opportunities for a more incisive female presence in the Church".
Lehfeldt, Elizabeth A. “Uneven conversions: how did laywomen become nuns in the early modern world?” In Conversions: Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe, edited by Simon Ditchfield and Helen Smith, 127-43. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Lehfeldt, Elizabeth A.
The Catholic Church has influenced the status of women in various ways: condemning abortion, divorce, incest, polygamy, and counting the marital infidelity of men as equally sinful to that of women. [2] [3] [4] The church holds abortion and contraception to be sinful, recommending only natural birth control methods. [5]
1879: The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in New England by an American woman, Mary Baker Eddy. [13] [14] [15] 1880: Anna Howard Shaw was the first woman ordained in the Methodist Protestant Church, an American church which later merged with other denominations to form the United Methodist Church. [16]
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Grail members saluting the Bishop of Haarlem. The Grail was started in 1921 as the Women of Nazareth by Fr. Jacques van Ginneken, a Dutch Jesuit.He felt that many new possibilities were opening up for women and that a group of lay women, unconfined by convent walls and rules, could make an immense contribution to the transformation of the world.
Uneven conversions: how did laywomen become nuns in the early modern world? in "Conversions: Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe", edited by Simon Ditchfield and Helen Smith (literary scholar) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017) [12]