The New Catholic Feminism: Theology, Gender Theory and Dialogue

Roman Catholicism exerts a continuing influence on the culture and politics of the world's nations, and never more so than on issues of gender and sexuality. If the Catholic Church is to continue to be relevant to modern women, it needs to go beyond its traditional anachronistic sexual stereotypes and hierarchies, to present the Gospel in a way that is attentive to the questions, needs and values of the age, without surrendering the central truths of Christian faith.

Tina Beattie is Reader in Christian Studies at Roehampton University, where she also convenes the MA programme in Religion and Human Rights.