Avery Dulles was widely respected across the Catholic theological spectrum for his scholarly acumen and even-handed, measured approach to complex doctrinal questions.
Cardinal Avery Dulles
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Ordaining women to the priesthood will not fix the church’s institutional problems
Perhaps when we ask if women can be ordained, we are asking the wrong question.
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We cannot separate the question of women’s ordination from the church’s history of sexism
While at the surface the question about women’s ordination has been asked and answered, rarely has it been asked in this new context where women’s full human dignity is unreservedly affirmed and defended.
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Women in the College of Cardinals: A modest proposal for a more equal (and prophetic) church
More pressing than the question of whether women can be ordained to the priesthood is the reality that clericalism and sexism have created and sustained a system in which women are treated as second-class citizens.
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Avery Dulles on women and the priesthood (from 1996)
Responses to 10 of the principal objections that are commonly raised against the Catholic Church’s teaching on the ordination of women.
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‘Dulles at 100’ (New York)
Monday, September 24, 2018 – 12:30 – 7:30 pm This year marks the centenary of the birth of Cardinal Dulles, as well as a decade since the death of the famous Catholic convert and Jesuit priest — one of the most renowned American theologians of the past century. Fordham University, where Dulles spent the last […]
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The model of a Catholic teacher: Cardinal Avery Dulles
Avery Dulles’ thousands of students remember him for the clarity of what he taught and wrote as a theologian and teacher. But he was more than that…
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Cardinal Dulles’ Funeral: A Brief Theological Note
Today toward the end of the funeral Mass for Avery Dulles at Saint Patrick rsquo s Cathedral after the long procession of priests had filed out the front doors onto Fifth Avenue followed at last by Cardinal Egan there was then a hushed pause A beat or two of empty time and then suddenly from n
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Father Joseph O’Hare on Avery Dulles
Former Fordham president, associate editor at America and longtime friend and colleague of Avery Cardinal Dulles, delivered the homily at the Mass of the Holy Eucharist in honor of the late cardinal.
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Avery Dulles on Hope
Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J.’s. lecture on hope, given a few weeks after the attacks on Sept. 11.