Women & Catholicism: Gender, Communion, and Authority

The book investigates three situations in the Catholic Church that point to Catholicism’s weak spot: the role of women in the Church. Zagano sheds light on the Catholic Church’s hierarchically-imposed laws that keep women at a distance from the holy, whether as liturgical ministers, as wives of priests, or as priests themselves.

Phyllis Zagano is Senior Research Associate-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor of Religion at Hofstra University and a columnist for the National Catholic Reporter .