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 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 show...