Women in the Church

The Church sends positive messages to young women by asserting that women are equal in dignity to men. The Church also sends the message that women need to be loving and caring mothers.

In my grade school, we had a wonderful example of a woman doing Christ’s work and at the same time demonstrating her wisdom in education. Sr. Elizabeth McCoy was the director at Ancillae-Assumpta Academy when I started kindergarten. She died a few years after I started school, but her work continues on even to this day. Her doctorate thesis is the basis for the schools mission. She always had a vision and was always looking for a way to improve the school and its facilities. The school continues to follow her R.I.C.E. process for students to be -responsible, interdependent, creative and empowered Christians. She accomplished a lot as a woman and certainly guided plenty of Ancillae graduates over the years and in the years to come.  

According to the article, the author sees marriage as a male dominated practice. In the Church we are all told women are equal yet women do not have the same rights to participate in the full mass as the male members of the Church do. Respect is for our human rights as a person but the rights are restricted based on the historical documentations. We all agree that the Church needs to see change in order to move forward, but the change will have to be seen in actions not just in words.