The Vocation of Women

 

This page offers material for the study and analysis of the promotion of the dignity of women and their mission in society and the Church: from the teachings of the Pontifical Magisterium to the research and analysis of theologians, philosophers, specialists and intellectuals. The Dicastery addresses this issue within the broader reflection on the man-woman relationship in its respective specificity, reciprocity, complementarity and equal dignity.

 

 

 

Bible

Marian Style: Feminine Genius in Evangelization
Mary Healy
Mary in the Old Testament
Gary A. Anderson
The Women of Genesis
Carroll Stuhlmueller C.P.
Roles of Women in the Old Testament
Irene Nowell O.S.B.
Listening to the Voices
Donald Senior C.P.
Martha and Jesus
Ardy Bass
Naomi, Ruth, and Orpah
Glenna S. Jackson

Theology

Mariology within theology
Mary McKenna
A Plea for the traditional family: Situating marriage within John Paul II’s realist, or personalist, perspective of human freedom
M ICHELE M. S CHUMACHER
A Plea for Human Ecology: on the prophetic value of Humanae Vitae for today
Michele Schumacher
John Paul II’s Theology of the Body
Michele M. Schumacher
The Magnificat and the Poor in Asia-Oceania: An Exposition of Mary in the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini1
Talk by M Isabell Naumann ISSM, THD/STD
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Sister Prudence Allen, RSM
The relationship between man and woman in the recent teaching of the Church
Ana Cristina Villa Betancourt
“God’s plan for man and woman in the sacrament of marriage”. The nuptial mystery and contemporary culture
Angelo Cardinal Scola
Women’s Ordination: Is It Still an Issue?
Sister Sara Butler, M.S.B.T
The sign of the woman
Joseph Ratzinger
Husband and Wife in the Light of the Incarnation
Christina Read
Contemporary Catholicism on Femininity: An Appreciation
Joanna Bogle

Philosophy

Feminism, nature and Humanae vitae: what’s love got to do with it?
Michele M. Schumacher
The Nature of Woman in Relation to Man
Deborah Savage
The conflict between woman and mother
Michele M. Schumacher
A Woman in Stone or in the Heart of Man? Navigating between Naturalism and Idealism in the Spirit of Veritatis Splendor
MICHELE M. SCHUMACHER
The Integral Feminism of St. Thomas Aquinas
Joseph Hartel
Man-Woman complementarity: the catholic inspiration
Prudence Allen, RSM
Mulieris Dignitatem twenty years later: an overview of the document and challenges
Sr. Prudence Allen, R.S.M.
The new global ethic: challenges for the Church
Marguerite A. Peeters
On the nature and vocation of women. Edith Stein’s concept against the background of a radically deconstructive position
Katharina Westerhorstmann
Pro Existence and Self Realization-Edith Stein’s Studies on Womanhood
Katharina Westerhorstmann
The Passion of Edith Stein—Revisited
Sr. Prudence Allen, RSM

Culture and Society

Women in the Workplace
Meg T. McDonnell
Women, Sexual Asymmetry & Catholic Teaching
Erika Bachiochi, J.D.
The uniqueness of the work of the woman in the society for its humanization
Irena Egle Laumenskaite
How not to be used: love and responsibility
Dale O'Leary
Why I Believe in Love
Meg T. McDonnell
The Beauty of Woman
Alejandra M. Correa
Microsoft Word - The Language of Love, +jdc.docx
A response to Amnesty International's abortion policy in light of Mulieris Dignitatem
Jane F. Adolphe †
John Paul II’s ‘Theology of the Body’ and the beauty of God’s plan of love in Natural Family Planning and Naprotechnology
Dr. William Newton
The Pope's Peace and Security Council Resolution 1325
Jane Adolphe+
Home and Identity: The Private-Public Nexus
Christine Ochieng
In defence of dignity and authentic development in Africa
Obianuju Ekeocha
The Right to Choose and Abortion. Is it really a choice?
Alejandra M. Correa
After-birth abortion: why should the baby live? An answer
Francesco D’Agostino – Dina Nerozzi
Don’t Say Gender when you mean Sex
Dale O’Leary
A Woman’s Perspective on Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective
Dale O’Leary
Time for a new feminism ?
Fiorella Nash
Simone Weil and Baptism
Eric O. Springsted
The Biology of Sexual Faithfulness and Fruitfulness
Vicki Thorn
The Psychopathology of “Sex Reassignment Surgery”: Assessing its Medical, Psychological and Ethical Appropriateness
Richard Fitzgibbons, Philip Sutton, and Dale O’Leary
"Priestesses in the Church?"
C. S. Lewis (1948)
Rejecting men, embracing children
By Helen Alvaré, J.D.
Money for nothing
The exploitation of maternal mortality
The exploitation of maternal mortality
Fiorella Nash
Female ambition. How to reconcile work and family
Nuria Chinchilla Albiol Consuelo León Llorente
The new global ethic
Marguerite Peeters
Reading the Sign of Times:
Alejandra M. Correa