{"id":31492,"date":"2014-09-23T07:39:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T11:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31492"},"modified":"2014-09-23T09:16:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:16:41","slug":"new-members-of-the-international-theological-commission-include-5-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/09\/new-members-of-the-international-theological-commission-include-5-women\/","title":{"rendered":"New members of the International Theological Commission include 5 women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Tracey-Rowland.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31493 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Tracey-Rowland-300x230.png\" alt=\"Tracey Rowland\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Tracey-Rowland-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Tracey-Rowland.png 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today the Pope named new members of the International Theological Commission which includes 5 women. The announcement stated:\u00a0\u201cWomen now constitute 16 per cent of the Commission\u2019s members, a sign of growing female involvement in theological research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the priests who make up the majority of the ITC are 5 women: Sister Prudence Allen RSM from the USA, Sister Alenka Arko, Dr Moira McQueen, Dr Marianne Schlosser and the well-known\u00a0Australian theologian Dr Tracey Rowland.\u00a0Until now, the ITC\u00a0had two women\u00a0members, Sister Sara Butler (USA) and Prof Barbara Hallensleben.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s announcement of Tracey Rowland&#8217;s to this service to the Church brings with it great enthusiasm because of Rowland&#8217;s keen mind and terrific work in the field of theology; a recent book of Rowland&#8217;s deals with Ratzinger\u2019s Faith: the Theology of Pope Benedict XVI. She is Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Gerhard Ludwig Cardinal M\u00fcller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the ultimate head of the group but there is a general secretary of the ITC who\u00a0is Father Serge-Thomas Bonino, O.P.<\/p>\n<p>The International Theological Commission was\u00a0formed\u00a0by Pope Paul VI in 1969 with the task to help the Pope and the on-going work of the Holy See by exploring and examining major doctrinal questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Pope named new members of the International Theological Commission which includes 5 women. The announcement stated:\u00a0\u201cWomen now constitute 16 per cent of the Commission\u2019s members, a sign of growing female involvement in theological research.\u201d Among the priests who make up the majority of the ITC are 5 women: Sister Prudence Allen RSM from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/09\/new-members-of-the-international-theological-commission-include-5-women\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New members of the International Theological Commission include 5 women<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31495,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31492\/revisions\/31495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}