Reflections on the situation of nuns in the Roman Catholic Church with illustrative examples from Spanish-language literature

In 2018 and 2019, the Vatican newspaper “L’Osservatore Romano” published two ground-breaking articles describing the psychological, physical and sexual abuse of nuns by clergymen of the Roman Catholic Church. The aim of this paper is to present the situation of consecrated women and the relationship...

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Main Author:	Olga Grzyś
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Lodz University Press 2020-03-01
Series:	Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica
Subjects:	gender catholic church spanish language literature gender-based discrimination clergy priests nuns
Online Access:	https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/sociologica/article/view/7993

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spelling	doaj-0895b2594e2349a686c729d6fbaf30e42020-11-25T03:33:45ZengLodz University PressActa Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica0208-600X2353-48502020-03-01729511310.18778/0208-600X.72.067993Reflections on the situation of nuns in the Roman Catholic Church with illustrative examples from Spanish-language literatureOlga Grzyś0Master of Arts, Chair of the Literature of Spanish-Speaking Countries, Institute of Modern Languages, Philological Department, Pedagogical University of Krakow, ul. Podchorążych 2, 30-084 KrakowIn 2018 and 2019, the Vatican newspaper “L’Osservatore Romano” published two ground-breaking articles describing the psychological, physical and sexual abuse of nuns by clergymen of the Roman Catholic Church. The aim of this paper is to present the situation of consecrated women and the relationships between priests and nuns. The text will also attempt to discover possible reasons for the clergymen’s inappropriate behaviour towards nuns. To achieve this goal, the author refers to the status of women in the Catholic religion and examines documents issued by the Church that relate to the life and the functioning of women’s religious communities. The second part of the paper presents fragments of Spanish-language poetry and prose whose authors or heroines are nuns. The selected texts address the problem of the clergy’s discrimination against nuns.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/sociologica/article/view/7993gendercatholic churchspanish language literaturegender-based discriminationclergypriestsnuns
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title	Reflections on the situation of nuns in the Roman Catholic Church with illustrative examples from Spanish-language literature
title_short	Reflections on the situation of nuns in the Roman Catholic Church with illustrative examples from Spanish-language literature
title_full	Reflections on the situation of nuns in the Roman Catholic Church with illustrative examples from Spanish-language literature
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publisher	Lodz University Press
series	Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica
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publishDate	2020-03-01
description	In 2018 and 2019, the Vatican newspaper “L’Osservatore Romano” published two ground-breaking articles describing the psychological, physical and sexual abuse of nuns by clergymen of the Roman Catholic Church. The aim of this paper is to present the situation of consecrated women and the relationships between priests and nuns. The text will also attempt to discover possible reasons for the clergymen’s inappropriate behaviour towards nuns. To achieve this goal, the author refers to the status of women in the Catholic religion and examines documents issued by the Church that relate to the life and the functioning of women’s religious communities. The second part of the paper presents fragments of Spanish-language poetry and prose whose authors or heroines are nuns. The selected texts address the problem of the clergy’s discrimination against nuns.
topic	gender catholic church spanish language literature gender-based discrimination clergy priests nuns
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Reflections on the situation of nuns in the Roman Catholic Church with illustrative examples from Spanish-language literature

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