Phyllis Zagano

Phyllis Zagano (born August 25, 1947)[1] is an American author and academic. She has written and spoken on the role of women in the Roman Catholic Church and is an advocate for the ordination of women as deacons.[2][3][4][5] Her writings have been variously translated into Indonesian, Czech, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.[6]

Phyllis Zagano
Born (1947-08-25) August 25, 1947
Queens, New York[1]
Alma mater
OccupationResearcher and adjunct professor
EmployerHofstra University
AwardsFulbright Fellow, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, 2009; Fulbright Senior Scholar, Waterford Institute of Technology, 2015

Early life and education

Zagano was born in Queens, New York.[1] She graduated from Sacred Heart Academy in 1965. She has a BA from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York (1969); master's degrees in communications from Boston University (1970), in literature from Long Island University (1972), and in theology from St. John's University (1991); and a PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1979.[1]

Career

Zagano was program officer at the National Humanities Center from 1979 to 1980, and taught at Fordham University from 1980 to 1984.[1] She was a researcher at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York from 1984 to 1986 and a Coolidge Fellow at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1987.[1] She taught at Boston University from 1988 to 1999.[1]

Since 2002, Zagano has taught at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, where she is senior research associate-in-residence and adjunct professor of religion.[1] In 2005 she held a visiting professorship at the Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut. In 2009, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Limerick's Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland, where she was a lecturer.[1] In 2015 she was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the Waterford Institute of Technology, in Waterford, Ireland.

Zagano received "Layperson of the Year" award from Voice of the Faithful in 2012.[7]

She received the 2014 Isaac Hecker Award for Social Justice from the Paulist Center of Boston.[8][9]

In 2016, Pope Francis appointed Zagano to the Papal Study Commission on the Women's Diaconate.[10][11] The Commission's first meeting was held November 25–26, 2016.[12] It produced an initial report to Pope Francis[13] by January 2019.[14] In May 2019, Francis said the Study Commission had not produced a "definitive response" due to a lack of consensus regarding the role of deaconesses in early Christianity. While Francis indicated that individual study continued, he did not indicate whether the Study Commission remains active as a body.[13]

Her papers are archived by the Women and Leadership Archives of Loyola University Chicago.[1]

Publications

Zagano's publications include:

  • Woman to Woman: An Anthology of Women's Spiritualities, 1993, editor.[6]
  • On Prayer, 1994.
  • Ita Ford: Missionary Martyr, 1996.
  • The Exercise of the Primacy: Continuing the Dialogue, 1998, co-editor.
  • Things New and Old: Essays on the Theology of Elizabeth A. Johnson, 1999, co-editor.
  • Twentieth-Century Apostles: Christian Spirituality in Action, 1999.
  • Holy Saturday: An Argument for the Restoration of the Female Diaconate in the Catholic Church, 2000; Catholic Press Association Book Award; 2002 College Theology Society Book Award.
  • Dorothy Day, 2003, editor.
  • Called to Serve: A Spirituality for Deacons, 2004.
  • The Dominican Tradition: Spirituality in History, 2006, co-editor.[15]
  • Women & Catholicism: Gender, Communion, and Authority, 2011; Catholic Press Association Book Award in category B15, "Gender issues".[16]
  • Women Deacons: Past, Present, Future, 2011, with Gary Macy and William T. Ditewig.[17]
  • Women in Ministry: Emerging Questions about the Diaconate, 2012.
  • Mysticism and the Spiritual Quest: A Crosscultural Anthology, 2013.
  • Ordination of Women to the Diaconate in the Eastern Churches: Essays by Cipriano Vagaggini, 2013, editor and translator.
  • Sacred Silence: Daily Meditations for Lent, 2014.
  • In the Image of Christ: Essays on Being Catholic and Female, 2015.
  • Women Deacons? Essays with Answers, 2016, editor and translator. Catholic Press Association Book Award in category B15, "Gender issues".[18]
  • The Light of the World: Daily Meditations for Advent, 2016.
  • Women: Icons of Christ, February 6, 2020

References
  1. Maria L. Wagner (2011). "Phyllis Zagano, Ph.D., Papers 1958-2011, n.d." (PDF). Archived from the original on 2015-06-23.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) Archived 23 June 2015.
  2. "A Woman on the Altar". US Catholic. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  3. "Seeking Larger Role for Women in the Church". Newsday. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
  4. ""Essays boost case for women deacons"". National Catholic Reporter. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  5. ""Witness Interview: Phyllis Zagano"=". Salt & Light TV. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  6. "Phyllis Zagano, Ph.D." Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  7. "Reflections on Catherine of Siena by Dr. Phyllis Zagano after receiving "Layperson of the year" award from VOTF 9/15/12 | FutureChurch". www.futurechurch.org. Retrieved 2018-02-13.
  8. Zagano accepts social justice award, National Catholic Reporter (January 28, 2014).
  9. Dennis Coday, Zagano honored with Paulist justice award, National Catholic Reporter (January 23, 2014).
  10. "Pope institutes commission to study the diaconate of women". Vatican Radio. August 2, 2016.
  11. Laurie Goodstein, Pope Francis Appoints Panel to Study Women Deacons: Q&A With a Member, New York Times (August 2, 2016): "Pope Francis has created a commission to study the possibility of ordaining women as deacons in the Roman Catholic Church. On Tuesday, he named 12 experts — six men and six women — to serve on the panel. ... Phyllis Zagano, a professor of religion at Hofstra University ... was appointed by Francis to the commission."
  12. "Vatican commission on female diaconate holds first meeting". Vatican Radio. 2016-11-25.
  13. Joshua J. McElwee, Francis: Women deacons commission gave split report on their role in early church, National Catholic Reporter (May 7, 2019).
  14. Christopher White, Papal advisers say Francis will know right moment to act on women deacons, Cruz (January 16, 2019).
  15. "Book Review: The Dominican Tradition". Spiritualwoman.Net. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  16. "2012 Catholic Press Association Book Awards" (PDF). Book Award Winners. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  17. "It's Time to Ordain Women (Again)". Religion Dispatches. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  18. "2017 Catholic Press Association Book Awards" (PDF). Book Award Winners. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
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