"Can Women Become Priests?": A Catholic Feminist Perspective

Can Coronavirus Become a Social Stigma?

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Surrogacy: a Catholic perspective.

Institutional Selection for Conformity: The Case of U.S. Catholic Priests

The declining dissent among Catholic clergy since the 1970s has consistently been attributed to cohort replacement, indicated by age differences, as a result of changes in Catholic religious culture, despite a recognition in recent sociology of religion of the importance of institutional agency. I test (1) whether changes in priest’s beliefs and values are due to cultural trends (indicated by b...

New Zealand women living with HIV/AIDS: a feminist perspective.

This paper draws on current and earlier literature, together with observational and anecdotal data to reveal the situation of HIV positive women in New Zealand. The present picture is examined in relation to data from a previously unpublished qualitative study undertaken by the author in 2001 using a feminist perspective. It would seem that dominant concerns of the women today are much the same...

When Priests Become Predators: Profiles of Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors

Prior to the writing of this book, ‘‘When Priests Become Predators,’’ and prior to 2002, few researchers in psychology had empirically investigated the problem of sexual abuse, specifically by clergy. Prior work was based on very small sample sizes involving perhaps one or two diocese. The year 2002 was a watershed year in that abuse carried out by Boston theologians was made public resulting i...