Manfred Hauke Hauke provides a tour de force study of the history and basic characteristics of modern feminism. Hauke presents an objective, detailed study of the facts of feminist theology around the world, using their own words and writings. He looks at the distinctiveness of feminist theology, what its image of man is as a fundamental point of departure, its basis from the experience of …

Fr. Manfred Hauke This book should become the standard reference in the debate about women's ordination. The author cites copiously from American as well as European sources and presents the feminist position in the words and categories of the leading feminist authors. But, for the first time, the whole question is placed in the comprehensive context of anthropology, biology, psychology, …

Feminism and related ideologies have exerted unparalleled influence on organized religion for about three decades.  Nowhere is evidence of this dominant influence more obvious than in worship of the liberal mainline denominations.  The transformation of the language of worship began almost imperceptibly with relatively peripheral liturgical elements, such as prayers incorporating …

Ann Carey A generation ago, nearly 200,000 sisters worked in Catholic schools, hospitals and nursing homes, parishes, and social service agencies - robust institutions that the sisters themselves had largely built.  The Catholic people honored them.  Sisters gave precious witness to the spiritual richness of a vocation to the religious life. Today, only half as many sisters remain …

Confessions is the honest and heart-rending account of a woman who was born into a Catholic family, attended parochial schools and fully embraced the beliefs of her faith, but ran into major roadblocks in college. Amidst the radical feminist college environment of the 1960’s, she lost her faith, and her morality, jumping aboard the bandwagon of “free love.” She indulged in a …