Image 2: Photograph, "Catholic Mass at the Women's Ordination Conference, 1978," in Women's Ordination Conference, New Women, New Church, New Priestly Ministry: Proceedings of the Second Conference on the Ordination of Roman Catholic Women (New York: Kirkwood Press, 1980), p. 152. Courtesy Marquette University Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

by Mary Henold
Image 2: Photograph, "Catholic Mass at the Women's Ordination Conference, 1978," in Women's Ordination Conference, New Women, New Church, New Priestly Ministry: Proceedings of the Second Conference on the Ordination of Roman Catholic Women (New York: Kirkwood Press, 1980), p. 152. Courtesy Marquette University Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Included in How Did Catholic Women Participate in the Rebirth of American Feminism?, by Mary Henold. (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 2005).
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Image 2: Photograph, "Catholic Mass at the Women's Ordination Conference, 1978," in Women's Ordination Conference, New Women, New Church, New Priestly Ministry: Proceedings of the Second Conference on the Ordination of Roman Catholic Women (New York: Kirkwood Press, 1980), p. 152. Courtesy Marquette University Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.


Conference participants celebrate mass at the 1978 Women's Ordination Conference in Baltimore.
This liturgy proved controversial because, by 1978, some Catholic feminists were unwilling to have a
male priest preside over their liturgy. A small group of women planned an alternative liturgy for
women only, scheduled at the same time. This forced participants to chose between the two, a choice
some viewed as a political statement.

   


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