1. Gender and the Roman Catholic Church
The Roman Catholic Church has refused to move with the shift. ... Thus, women in the Roman Catholic Church are denied positions of religious authority which excludes them from clerical positions in the church. ... Stanton stresses that woman's degradation and oppression in the Roman Catholic Church stems from the "Canon Law ""the religious dogma of the Roman Catholic Church." ... She further stresses that the Canon Law endows man with political freedom and all the rights that belongs to a citizen of a republic and sees woman as a slave, a subject and a mere outcast in the State. The...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate