Please read this paper, delivered by Myra Poole at the inaugural meeting of Stand Up For Vatican II. Please try and get the web site details published in your local parish newsletters if at all possible.
Guests in their own house:
the women of Vatican II (1996 Carmel McEnroy)
1964 – 1966 – third and Fourth sessions of the Council
A paper written for Stand Up For Vatican II by Myra Poole snd -January 2010,
Introduction – setting the scene of the Council
I based my talk mainly, but not completely, on the book Guests in Their Own House: the women of Vatican II by Carmel McEnroy (1996). This book is well known in the USA but less well known in Britain and other parts of the world. This paper formed the basis of a twenty minute talk where I tried to connect the experience of women in the 21st century with that of the women of Vatican II. My purpose was to illustrate, from the women who were auditors at the Council, the position of women in the RC Church in the nineteen sixties, their involvement in the Council and whether attitudes towards women had changed since then.
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