scholarly journals Queering Catholic Fundamentalism: On Liking Theology in Masculinities Research

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Kevin Burke
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
New Era ◽  
Recent Movement ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Church

<p>This article seeks to build on recent movement in the fields of religion and gender studies in order to analyze and critically reflect on “the relation, confrontation and intersection of gender and religion” (Korte, 2011, p. 2). Here the author works to investigate the possibility that emerges in new forms of analysis that marry theological interventions with masculinities studies as a way to newly attend to patriarchy and fundamentalism. Utilizing feminist Catholic theology, the work addresses unique and recent problems that have emerged in the Church in the face of a new era that appears both more progressive and that has engendered conservative backlash.  Along the way the article addresses issues of gender and sexuality as they relate to the priesthood and Pope Francis’ recent assertions linking gender theory to ideological colonization and even nuclear armaments.</p>

scholarly journals Queering Catholic Fundamentalism: On Liking Theology in Masculinities Research

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Kevin Burke
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
New Era ◽  
Recent Movement ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Church

<p>This article seeks to build on recent movement in the fields of religion and gender studies in order to analyze and critically reflect on “the relation, confrontation and intersection of gender and religion” (Korte, 2011, p. 2). Here the author works to investigate the possibility that emerges in new forms of analysis that marry theological interventions with masculinities studies as a way to newly attend to patriarchy and fundamentalism. Utilizing feminist Catholic theology, the work addresses unique and recent problems that have emerged in the Church in the face of a new era that appears both more progressive and that has engendered conservative backlash.  Along the way the article addresses issues of gender and sexuality as they relate to the priesthood and Pope Francis’ recent assertions linking gender theory to ideological colonization and even nuclear armaments.</p>

Pastoral Bagi Keluarga Dalam Situasi Khusus Menurut Paus Fransiskus Dalam Anjuran Apostolik Amoris Laetitia

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-200
Author(s):  
Gerardus Rahmat Subekti
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Face ◽  
Families First ◽  
Difficult Situations ◽  
The Church ◽  
Amoris Laetitia ◽  
Crisis Situations

The article deals with pastoral care for family according to Amoris Laetitia. The author’s concern is to discuss the pastoral steps for the families in the face of crisis situations: What kind of pastoral steps can be organized to assist families in crisis situations? This article is based on the study of ecclesial document Amoris Laetitia, a post-synodal apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis addressing the pastoral care of families. First of all, the article describes the basic thoughts of this document, especially those related to the reality and ideals of family life. Then, it shows some practical pastoral thoughts for assisting families in special situations. The results can be a significant contribution for the Church in terms of its important duties and responsibilities in assisting the families today, but also for family pastoral activists. This description concludes that the crisis situation faced by families is not a fact to be constantly regretted, but an opportunity for the Church to show God's mercy to those who are struggling in difficult situations.

Crimen Sollicitationis

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-192
Author(s):  
Diederik F. Janssen
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
General Situation ◽  
Gay Liberation ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Feminist Sociology ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Late Modern

Late modernity’s binary intrigue of child sexuality/abuse is understood as a backlash phenomenon reactive to a general trans‐Atlantic crisis concerning the interlocking of kinship, religion, gender, and sexuality. Tellingly dissociated from 1980s gay liberation and recent encounters between queer theory and kinship studies, the child abuse theme articulates modernity’s guarded axiom of tabooed incest and its projected contemporary predicament “after the orgy”—after the proclaimed disarticulation of religion‐motivated, kin‐pivoted, reproductivist, and gender‐rigid socialities. “Child sexual abuse” illustrates a general situation of decompensated nostalgia: an increasingly imminent loss of the child’s vital otherness is counterproductively embattled by the late modern overproduction of its banal difference, its status as “minor.” Attempts to humanize, reform, or otherwise moderate incest’s current “survivalist” and commemorative regime of subjectivation, whether by means of ethical, empirical, historical, critical, legal, or therapeutic gestures, typically trigger the latter’s panicked empiricism. Accordingly, most “critical” interventions, from feminist sociology and anthropology to critical legal studies, have largely been collusive with the backlash: rather than appraising the radical precariousness of incest’s ethogram of avoidance in the face of late modernity’s dispossessing analytics and semiotics, they tend to feed its state of ontological vertigo and consequently hyperextended, manneristic forensics.

scholarly journals Misericórdia: opção fundamental para o agir cristão na atualidade

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellton Luis Sbardella ◽  
Clélia Peretti
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The People ◽  
The Face ◽  
Sacred Scripture ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Church

O presente artigo apresenta reflexões bíblicas e do magistério da Igrejasobre o tema da misericórdia. A misericórdia é o fundamento para os desafios que a fé cristã enfrenta diante das diferentes manifestações de violência na nossa sociedade. O tema da misericórdia está presente na Sagrada Escritura e no Catecismo da Igreja Católica (CIC), o qual nos mostra a concretização da ação misericordiosa de Deus em Jesus para todo ser humano. A Bula Misericordiae Vultus, do Papa Francisco, na  proclamação do Jubileu Extraordinárioda Misericórdia, apresenta com clareza o rosto da misericórdia de Deus, sua presença e ações manifestas no caminhar e na história do povo. O desafio do cristão hoje é uma prática evangélica da misericórdia, que ofereça respostas de libertação àquilo que fere a dignidade do homem e da mulher.Palavras-chave: Misericordiae Vultus. Deus é misericórdia. Violência e misericórdia.Abstract: The present article presents biblical reflections and the magisterium of the Church on the subject of mercy. Mercy is the foundation for the challenges that the Christian faith faces in the face of the different manifestations of violence in our society. The theme of mercy is present in Sacred Scripture and in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) which shows us the concreteness of the merciful action of God in Jesus for every human being. The Bull Misericordiae Vultus of Pope Francis in the proclamation of the extraordinary jubilee of mercy clearly presents the face of the mercy of God, his presence and actions manifested in the way of the people and in his history. The challenge of the Christian today is an evangelical practice of mercy offering answers of deliverance to that which hurts the dignity of man and woman.Keywords: Misericordiae Vultus. God is mercy. Violence and mercy.

scholarly journals Gender and Metaphysics: Judith Butler and Bernard Lonergan in Conversation

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-131
Author(s):  
Benjamin Hohman
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Bernard Lonergan ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Significant Figure ◽  
Ongoing Dialogue

There has long been a mutual distrust between gender theory and Catholic metaphysics. However, this article argues that at least one significant figure in gender studies, Judith Butler, has been broadly misunderstood by many Catholic thinkers. Bringing Butler into dialogue with Bernard Lonergan, this article proposes to show (1) that Butler’s critiques reveal certain influential strands of Catholic theology as metaphysically untenable, (2) that Lonergan’s metaphysics evades Butler’s critiques, and (3) that there is a complementarity between Butler and Lonergan’s approaches and their aims. The final section of the article offers some foundational principles from Lonergan’s metaphysics for framing ongoing dialogue.

Pure Marriage

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-52
Author(s):  
Taylor G. Petrey
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Interracial Marriages ◽  
The Face ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
And Gender

From the 1950s to the 1970s, Mormons preached against interracial marriages and in favor of patriarchal marriages. This chapter explores the interrelationships between race, gender, and sexuality in Mormon thought in this period. As part of a broader conservative investment in values of home and family, Latter-day Saints embraced these teachings as core doctrines to stabilize racial and gender differences in the face of erosion of difference. These teachings underwent changes after a 1978 revelation ended priesthood and temple restrictions for Black LDS members.

The Laywoman Project

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary J. Henold
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Modern World ◽  
National Council ◽  
New Era ◽  
Church Hierarchy ◽  
Catholic History ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Church

Summoning everyday Catholic laywomen to the forefront of twentieth-century Catholic history, Mary J. Henold considers how these committed parishioners experienced their religion in the wake of Vatican II (1962–1965). This era saw major changes within the heavily patriarchal religious faith—at the same time as an American feminist revolution caught fire. Who was the Catholic woman for a new era? Henold uncovers a vast archive of writing, both intimate and public facing, by hundreds of rank-and-file American laywomen active in national laywomen’s groups, including the National Council of Catholic Women, the Catholic Daughters of America, and the Daughters of Isabella. These records evoke a formative period when laywomen played publicly with a surprising variety of ideas about their own position in the Catholic Church. While marginalized near the bottom of the church hierarchy, laywomen quietly but purposefully engaged both their religious and gender roles as changing circumstances called them into question. Some eventually chose feminism while others rejected it, but most, Henold says, crafted a middle position: even conservative, nonfeminist laywomen came to reject the idea that the church could adapt to the modern world while keeping women’s status frozen in amber.

scholarly journals Religion Helps Migrants: Roman Catholic Church and the Migrant Crisis During the Pontificate of Pope Francis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 142-152
Author(s):  
A. Szabaciuk
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Holy See ◽  
The Face ◽  
International Body ◽  
Ethical Component ◽  
The Church

This essay evaluates the standpoint that the Roman Catholic Church has adopted regarding the European migrant crisis. Some countries feel a severe outfl ow of people due to mass labor migration; others must deal with the challenges as transit states, and others – enormous challenges generated by the infl ux of economic immigrants and refugees. The most popular theories of migration and public policies very often ignore the ethical component of migration. One of the entities that constantly emphasizes the humanitarian aspect of migration is the Holy See. Popes, beginning with Leo XIII, have repeatedly raised the issue of rights to a dignifi ed life and decent work, and if it is necessary also to migrate in search of a safe shelter and a better life. Pope Francis, like his predecessors, referring to the problem of migration, puts people fi rst. He emphasizes that all migration streams consist of individuals who deserve respect and care because we see in them the face of God. This paper concludes that the Church remains the signifi cant international body impartial amidst the growing European schism on the migrant issue.

A Decolonial Feminist Dante: Imperial Historiography and Gender

2021 ◽  
pp. 700-718
Author(s):  
Marguerite Waller
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Religious Art ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Church Art ◽  
Gender System ◽  
The Church

This chapter brings a decolonial dimension to Euro-American feminist readings of Dante’s constructions of gender and sexuality. Corroborated by the religious art of the first millennium of the church in Rome, the Commedia’s concern with gender and sexuality relates directly to Pope Boniface VIII’s official disenfranchisement of women as part of his effort to imperialize the papacy. The ‘decolonial’ turn taken by several feminist theorists over the last forty years draws upon strategies and metaphors similar to Dante’s to challenge a post-1492 colonial sex/gender system. Early church art needs to be consulted in Dante studies for evidence of an anti-imperial Christian culture, subjugated and occluded by Dante’s time, that embraced the sensuous, the female, and a decentralizing relational imaginary. The ninth-century Basilica of Santa Prassede in Rome and the story of Titus unfolded across Purgatorio and Paradiso suggest a ‘decolonial’ alternative to the sex/gender system on which imperial sovereignty depends.

scholarly journals Transforming Time – the Maternal Church and the Pilgrimage of Faith

Ecclesiology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-72
Author(s):  
Tina Beattie
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Church

Two related themes running through Pope Francis’ theology form the focus of this article: the importance of time over space in the context of the unfolding story of salvation as a journey through history, and the motherhood of the Church, personified in Mary. On the face of it, these two different theological metaphors are not easy to combine to form a coherent ecclesiology. The first develops the Second Vatican Council’s imagery of the Church as the pilgrim people of God, and the other draws on the ancient metaphor of the Church as Mother. This article explores each of these in turn, in order to suggest ways in which they can be creatively integrated to offer a revitalised ecclesiology for our times. However, this can only happen if the church takes a leap of faith to acknowledge the sacramental significance of the female body.

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