Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002. Originally Published: Nuns Firm Under Fire, July 13, 2001; pp. 3-5.
"Under Vatican threat of serious penalties, Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister addressed June 30 [2001] the first international conference for women's ordination groups around the world." (NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER) This article profiles nuns who disobeyed the Vatican by participating in the Women's Ordination Worldwide conference, the goal of which was to ordain women as priests.
1522-3256;
Nuns. Ordination of women. Sexism in religion. Women in the Catholic Church. Women priests.