Espacios restringidos: reflexiones sobre la negación de la ordenación sacerdotal católica de las mujeres

Abstract

The struggle for women’s equality, essential in feminist tenets and equally present in some Catholic theories, implies the right for religious women to participate in the diverse administrative tasks of the Church, thus performing functions and roles so far carried out exclusively by men. This would include the right to priestly ordination for women, a crucial issue in current female denunciation of the anachronism that characterises Catholicism, which persists in stressing biological principles as fundamental for the distribution of roles within the Church. This work presents a historical survey of the reasons that have been offered for and against female ordination.