Word: theologian
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Others who favor women priests say feminists must realize that progress takes time. Boston College theologian Lisa Sowle Cahill notes that bishops writing in the 1930s made "a great hue and cry against women leaving the home," whereas Pope John Paul favors women's careers and job equality so long as the centrality of family and motherhood is preserved. Cahill thinks the ordination issue is being pressed by "a small and privileged class" in the West, while women worldwide are struggling just to survive and need Catholicism's help...
Conservative theologian Joyce A. Little of Houston's University of St. Thomas interprets feminism as one aspect of an insidious cultural attack against all traditional restraints and beliefs in favor of asserting individual desires. Little wants the American bishops to draw the line and insist that "the personal beliefs of priests, religious or laity which run contrary to the public faith of the church will not be tolerated in liturgy or instruction on Catholic doctrine." She recognizes that such a crackdown would cause "extraordinary public fragmentation of the Catholic community." However, the U.S. hierarchy's current policy of benign inaction...
Bernard Walsh, an apologetic theologian, travels with his father to the island to visit the dying Ursula, his great-aunt, and to wind up her affairs. Jack, Bernard's father, hasn't seen his sister in years, and Bernard induces him to come only by the vague intimation that Ursula's fortune awaits an inheritor...
...overarching all of society -- nor, one hopes, the resurgence of what might be called the Bible Belt Inquisition. But we may be heading into an age when faith will again be taken seriously, and when it will again play a major part in our existence. As the Swiss-born theologian Hans Kung says, "Ethics must again become public instead of merely personal...