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7/3/00


SLU PROF'S BOOK ASKS: WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WOMEN WERE PRIESTS?

CANTON -- A new book by St. Lawrence University Assistant Professor 
of Religious Studies Kelley A. Raab examines the implications for 
society and the Catholic church if women were allowed to become priests.
	When Women Become Priests: The Catholic Women's Ordination 
Debate was recently published by Columbia University Press. Publishers 
state that the book "explores the symbolic implications of women at the 
altar, providing rich insight into issues of gender, symbolism and power."
	Raab "addresses critical issues about the effect of a female 
priest on the parishioners she would serve, on the sacrament of communion 
and on the significance of the symbolism of Jesus that priests maintain 
during certain ceremonies." Interviews with women in the Episcopal 
priesthood are included to support Raab's views.
	A member of the St. Lawrence faculty since the fall of 1999, 
Raab is a graduate of Colgate University, with a master of divinity degree 
from the Chicago Theological Seminary, a master's degree from the University 
of Chicago and the Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa. She previously 
taught at Westmar University in Iowa and Nebraska Wesleyan University.

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