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No Women in Holy Orders?

The Women Deacons of the Early Church

In this book a leading Catholic author and scholar finds evidence that for six centuries, women were ordained as deacons in the Catholic Church. Whether women can be ordained as... ...read more

ISBN-13: 9781853115073
ISBN-10: 185311507X
Published: 01/01/2002
Format: Paperback
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In this book a leading Catholic author and scholar finds evidence that for six centuries, women were ordained as deacons in the Catholic Church. Whether women can be ordained as deacons is under debate and publication will coincide with the Vatican's pronouncement. Great publicity is likely to follow. A positive encouragement to all who are conscious of the benefits that the ministry of women might bring to today's Catholic Church, this book looks to the past for inspiration for the future. From the 3rd to the 10th centuries, women were ordained as deacons and translations of ancient liturgies show how they carried out numerous sacramental rites and were responsible for the community of faith. Since the Middle Ages, the Church has said only men can be deacons. This brave book asks how can this be so?
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John N.M. Wijngaards
John Wijngaards is one of today's outstanding spiritual writers. He founded Housetop, which promotes the spirituality of John Main and is the author of many books on prayer and Bible study. He is a frequent contributor to the "Tablet". Formerly Vicar General of the Mill Hill Fathers, he now leads the movement for the ordination of women in the Catholic Church and runs a truly impressive website: www.womenpriests.org
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"In compiling an excellent bibliography of sources on the female diaconate, Wijngaards has done a fine service to the non-European reader. (...) While this book is replete with interesting and valuable citations and references for the scholarm it continues the popular style of Wijngaards's The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church (2001), and is more suitable for the general reader." Phyllis Zagano, Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y. THEOLOGICAL STUDIES, December 2004.