The Wounded Church: Tending to the Harm Within Catholicism by Selak, Annie
The Wounded Church: Tending to the Harm Within Catholicism by Selak, Annie

The Wounded Church: Tending to the Harm Within Catholicism

Confronting racism, sexism, and clericalism in Catholic life and inviting real conversion and justice In The Wounded...
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Author: Annie Selak
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Language: English
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The Wounded Church: Tending to the Harm Within Catholicism by Selak, Annie

The Wounded Church: Tending to the Harm Within Catholicism

$41.94
The Wounded Church: Tending to the Harm Within Catholicism by Selak, Annie

The Wounded Church: Tending to the Harm Within Catholicism

$41.94
Author: Annie Selak
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Confronting racism, sexism, and clericalism in Catholic life and inviting real conversion and justice

In The Wounded Church, theologian Annie Selak argues that the Catholic Church must confront its own injuries in order to credibly be the Church. Using a feminist framework, she develops a new ecclesiology around three wounds, racism, sexism, and clericalism, that actively harm the Body of Christ and distort its witness.

Attentive to history, pastoral practice, and lived experience, Selak shows how each wound is both inflicted by the Church and borne within the Church. She offers the resurrected body of Jesus, scarred yet no longer bleeding, as a guiding metaphor for ecclesial renewal, a body that does not deny its wounds but is transformed through them. Drawing on Karl Rahner, she grounds hope in the reign of God while insisting on concrete institutional and spiritual conversion.

Written for students and scholars, ministers and lay leaders, The Wounded Church uncovers overlooked histories tied to racism, sexism, and the clergy sexual abuse crisis, and proposes clear theological principles for reform. The result is a constructive, pastorally engaged vision that tells the truth about harm and imagines credible paths toward change, accountability, and justice.

Author: Annie Selak
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9781531513375

About the Author
Annie Selak is a feminist theologian based in Washington, DC, and a visiting scholar at Center on Faith and Justice at Georgetown University. She has more than fifteen years of experience in Catholic ministry. Her teaching and writing focus on ecclesiology, feminist theologies, and ethics.
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