Reformist Catholicism: The Road Not Taken for Mary Daly
Abstract
Mary Daly was a witness to the Catholic Church’s Second Vatican Council, and in the 1960s had great hope for the reform of the Roman Catholic Church. She subsequently became convinced that patriarchal Catholicism would never include women fully and on the same basis as men. Yet she sustained a spirituality of connection to “transcendent reality” or “Be-ing,” with which she sought more authentic connection through feminist sisterhood and a genre-breaking form of theopoetics.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Catholicism and Religious Studies
Religious and Theological Studies
Theological Perspectives and Practices
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Pages
- 176–208
- Publication date
- 15 January 2026
- Document type
- Book chapter