Data gathering was a challenging and time-consuming task and to our volunteers, we owe deep gratitude for making this report possible. We wish we could name each one, but the current climate of fear in too many dioceses made some unwilling to release their names.

Conclusions

If one assumes that we Catholics began the process of officially proclaiming the full equality of women just 40 odd years ago, today's Church is a far cry from its pre-Vatican II self. This is especially true in the context of our liturgical celebrations. Women and girls perform liturgical functions previously reserved only to men or boys.

Justice in Education

Education for Clergy: Women are poorly represented on seminary faculties, and often relegated to teaching ancillary courses such as ESOL (English to Speakers of a Second Language). A number of seminaries have only one female faculty member.

Justice in Education:

Education for Clergy on the Fundamental Equality of Women

Coalition members recruited local volunteers to research the answers to a series of 14 questions.ⁱ The volunteers were recruited through email action alerts from the Women's Justice Coalition member organizations and/or organizational newsletters, who were invited to sign up for th

In February 2006, the Women's Justice Coalition,ⁱ a group of Catholic reform organizations with a stake in moving the cause of equality for women forward within the institutional church, agreed to conduct the first-ever study of the status of women in Catholic education, liturgy, d