A lecture by Professor Emerita Helen King from St Paul's Cathedral, London
Over the course of Western history, how have religion and medicine worked...
In the our celebration of Word and Eucharist today (14 June 2025) we reflected upon:
"God's kingdom is a kindom that is inclusive of everyone, but in a special way, includes the outcasts, the marginalised, the oddbods, the 'different', the 'other', women, children as well as men.
This led one of our number, from India, to offer this which resonated with all of us:
I want to share a message of positivity here - we do feel like a minority because we think of the world as neighbourhood. But let me remind you, that the news tends to report the negative more than the positive. Every single day, more and more people are discussing and speaking out against the genocide. When in history have you seen GLOBAL awareness and collective anger against this violence? People from India, Australia, USA, Brazil, South Africa... all joining voices with EU condemning the violence. Today, you from Ireland, Italy, UK, France... you are aware and supporting the fight of a nun who was raped in South India. Each time you speak of these issues, you ARE the change. Through this conversation, through your voice, through your resistance you ARE THE INFLUENCE that will change the situation. Slowly, but surely.
A lecture by Professor Emerita Helen King from St Paul's Cathedral, London
Over the course of Western history, how have religion and medicine worked...
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A lecture by Professor Emerita Helen King from St Paul's Cathedral, London
Over the course of Western history, how have religion and medicine worked together to tell women how their bodies work, and what they should do with them? How have Eve and Mary been used to convey these messages, and how has their role been challenged? Helen King explores the potential of both Christianity and medicine to work towards a healthier approach to the body.
Helen King is Professor Emerita at The Open University, where she researched and taught the history of the body. She is an elected lay member of the Church of England's General Synod and a trustee of WATCH (Women and the Church). Her latest book is 'Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women's Bodies'.
Dr. Birgit Weiler, MMS, is a German missionary and theology professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. A scholar of synodality and the Catholic Church in Latin America and in the Amazon region, Professor Weiler is a member of the Congregation of the Medical Missionary Sisters. She has lived for more than 35 years in Peru, where she works with the Episcopal Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA) and the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM).
