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The Moral Insufficiency of the Church: Its Persistent Failure of Women
(2022)
Abstract
In this blog space, I have written about the apparent dangers of a sector of American lay Catholicism to the moral and spiritual health of the Church and to the wider community of Catholics. In some corners of the country, contemporary Catholicism seems more akin to a heterodox Jansenism or a white evangelical Christian nationalism than to modern Christianity framed by the moral and social justice teachings of Vatican II. As evidence, one need only look to language of the (majority Catholic) justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in the recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade: embedded in the prosaic legalese was the patronizing discourse of disdain, condescension, and even insensitivity about what is obviously a complicated and fraught matter for women about human dignity and moral autonomy.
Disciplines
Publication Date
July 8, 2022
Citation Information
June-Ann Greeley. "The Moral Insufficiency of the Church: Its Persistent Failure of Women" (2022) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/june-ann_greeley/34/