1. The Christian Vision

• Dignity and Vocation of Women (Mulieris Dignitatem)
• Mary as pre-eminent exemplar of the New Woman
• Discover, with Mary, a new feminine identity
• Mary in the Gospels: model of authentic emancipation of women
• Mary sheds light on role of women
• Value of the feminine presence in salvation history
• Woman's Moral Nobility
• Edith Stein on Male-Female Differences (from Crisis magazine)
• God and the Sexes (from Crisis magazine)
• The Pope's New Feminism - Mary Ann Glendon (Crisis magazine)
• A New Feminism (Helen Alvare)
• Pro woman, not pro choice
• Crossing the Threshold of Hope: Women
  
  

2. Women in society

• On the occasion of the Beijing conference on Women:
  • Letter to Women: Pope John Paul II.
  • To promote women's equal dignity: Holy See's position.
  • Holy See's final statement: Prof.Mary Ann Glendon.
  • An African Woman's Words at the Beijing Conference
  • Mother Teresa's Message to the Beijing Conference

• The rights and role of women in the family and in society
• Women: Teachers of Peace
• Subject to her husband? The Pope on Ephesians 5, 21-23
  (N.B. if you haven't read these, don't presume you know the mind of the Church in this regard!)
  • From a general audience in 1982
  • From Mulieris Dignitatem #24
  • For one theologian's analysis of these texts and their harmony with the earlier teachings of the Magisterium, see: Germain Grisez, The Way of the Lord Jesus. Vol.2: Living a Christian Life (Franciscan Press, Quincy IL 1993), 615-617.
• Motherhood: woman's gift to society

• Men's relationship with their wives
• The equality of women and men, in the context of marriage (Irish Bishops)
• Recognizing women's work in the home
• A new feminism in the service of the culture of life
• Women, Feminism in the Church (Sr.Kathryn Hermes)
• Dominant culture attempts to masculinize woman in the name of 'liberation'
• Offenses against women's dignity
• Commitment to promoting women's dignity
• Woman's image in the media (Pope's Message for World Communications Day 1996)
  

3. Women in the life of the Church

• Enhancing the role of women in Church life - John Paul II
• Women in the life and mission of the Church (Christifideles Laici)
• The laywoman in the Church (Janet Smith)
• On Women and the Priesthood - CDF
• A summary of the question, and some needed perspective - John Paul II
• Pope John Paul II's definitive statement on the Church's inability to ordain women to the priesthood
• Some ancient witnesses to the tradition (from Catholic Answers)
• Women, Ordination, and Angels (Michael Novak, First Things)
• InContext: Neither Male nor Female (Connie Wright)
• Eucharist and Gender - (Mary Rousseau, Catholic Dossier)
• Women's Authority in the Church - Monica Migliorino Miller, Crisis magazine
• An Almost Infallible Teaching - Michael Miller (from Crisis magazine)
• The importance of women in the life of the priest (Letter, John Paul II)
• The two articles which follow, while addressing the particular concern of this page only obliquely, are excellent commentaries/complements to the Pope's letter
  • The wonder of women - Cristoforo Fernandez
  • When priests are too close - Elena Araujo de Scasso
• Marian Profile of Ministry & woman's ecclesial role (Max Thurian)

4. Women in the history of Catholic thought and practice

• Women's status in early Christian culture
• Augustine, a male chauvinist? by Fr.Edmund Hill, O.P.
• The Myth of Soulless Women
• Out-of-context quotes cannot do justice to Christian thought
• A church peopled with empowered women (Dr Suzanne Scarsone)

5. Books and book reviews

• Justice in the Church: Gender and Participation by Benedict Ashley (review by Brian Mullady OP)

Part of the Catholic Perspectives project o f the Newman Center at Caltech