Women and Men in the Life and Ministry of the Church | Mother Mary Christa Nutt, R.S.M.

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🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Mother Mary Christa Nutt, Superior General of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, discusses the Catholic Church's view on the roles and participation of men and women in the church's life and ministry, emphasizing integral sex complementarity and the unique vocations of women.

This lecture was given at the Catholic University of America on May 16, 2023 as part of the Thomistic Institute symposium titled "Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood."

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About the speaker:

Mother Mary Christa Nutt serves as superior general of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma. She earned a baccalaureate, license of sacred theology, and a doctoral degree in moral theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:05.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:12.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:18.1	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at to mystic institute.org.
0:25.4	A few days ago, I emailed the schedule for this conference to George Weigel, and a few hours
0:31.5	later, he replied to me from Rome.
0:33.2	That's Mother Mary Krista, not to you, pal.
0:37.5	Our final speaker is Mother Mary Krista, not to you, pal. Our final speaker is Mother Mary Krista Nutt, Superior General of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, a community that is celebrating its 50th year this year.
0:49.2	Mother Mary Krista received her STD, her Doctrine and Sacred Theology from the Angelicum, and she wrote there on the
0:56.6	vow of obedience in St. Thomas Aquinas. Please welcome Mother Mary Krista.
1:05.0	Thank you very much. I'm very grateful to have been invited to speak today.
1:13.6	I'm aware of time, so I'm going to try to not read too quickly, but I might have a little more than 20 minutes here.
1:21.6	The title of my talk, which is going to end up a compliment, appropriately so to Dr. Grabowski's talk,
1:30.0	is called Women and Men in the Life and Ministry of the Church.
1:34.8	In today's cultural milieu, a title like this is actually posing a question often.
1:41.4	Do men and women, but especially do women, participate fully in the life and ministry
1:46.2	of the Catholic Church? The Catholic Church, as we know, is one of the few institutions
1:51.4	in the Western world that continues to differentiate some of the ministries that are open to
1:56.8	men and women, and to promote certain ministries or vocations based on sex.
2:02.6	The obvious deeper question at hand is how, then, does the church view men and women relative
2:08.1	to each other?
2:09.6	A second implied question is whether or not this view is archaic, unmodern, wrong, or
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