Download or read book Handmaids of the Lord Women Deacons in the Catholic Church written by Jane Coll and published by Gracewing. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most hotly-debated topics today in the Catholic Church concerns the role of women. Jane Coll upholds as binding the Church teaching that they cannot be ordained as priests. She then explores whether women could be ordained deaconesses. The author takes a new look at this issue and seeks an answer that is compatible with the teachings of Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium. She has based her work on the premise that the Church cannot introduce any changes that contradict the deposit of Revelation. By discussing the meaning of the Sacrament of Ordination and the role of women in the Church under the teachings of Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium she indicates that, while the Church could not ordain women as priests, it could ordain them as deacons. However, are such deaconesses part of the sacrament of Order or are they sacramentals? Could the whole issue of women's ordination be side-stepped by creating an order of non-ordained deaconesses with wide parish responsibilities? This book attempts to answer these questions as well as a host of others on this fascinating and topical theme.
Download or read book Ordained Women Deacons written by John Wijngaards and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, enlarged edition of the groundbreaking 'No Women in Holy Orders?', gathering historical evidence to show that women were ordained as deacons in the first ten centuries of the Church, and identifiying over 120 known female deacons.
Download or read book No Women in Holy Orders written by J. N. M. Wijngaards and published by Canterbury Press Norwich. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author finds evidence that for six centuries, women were ordained as deacons in the Catholic Church. 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. Whether women can be ordained as deacons is now still under debate.This book will bring a positive encouragement to all who are conscious of the benefits that the ministry of women might bring to today's Catholic Church and looks to the past for inspiration for the future.
Download or read book Ordination of Women to the Diaconate in the Eastern Churches written by Cipriano Vagaggini and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of restoring women to the ordained diaconate surfaced during the Second Vatican Council and continued to resound in academic and pastoral circles well after Pope Paul VI restored the diaconate as a permanent state for the church in the West in 1967. Available for the first time in English, these two documents by Cipriano Vagaggini, OSB. Cam., on the historical details of women ordained as deacons in the Greek and Byzantine traditions demonstrate that women were sacramentally ordained to the major order of deacon over the course of many centuries in many parts of the Greek and Byzantine East. Vagaggini introduces the conclusions to his study by noting that "in Christian antiquity there were different beliefs and tendencies distinguishing between ministry and ministry, ordination and ordination, with regard to the nature and significance of the respective orders or ranks."
Download or read book Handmaids of the Lord written by Joan Margaret Petersen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Christian world, women have chosen to lead disciplined lives of prayer and asceticism. Descriptions of early role-models 'Macrina, the two Palas and Melanias, Radagunde 'and others by contemporaries, usually men, provide details of their austerities, their aspirations, and their relationship with the Church and the world, not least with male authority figures.
Download or read book Even the Dogs written by Cloe Taddei-Ferretti and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a historical excursus that describes female ministries in the early Church. It analyzes the disputed traces of women in the presbyteral ministry, diaconal ministry, and the differences in ordination rite and functions for deaconesses and deacons of the Byzantine Church. Information is included on the gender balance of today's identical ordination rite and functions of deaconesses and deacons. The study also examines: the hypothetical possibility of female presbyteral ordination; belief in female subordination; the spousal symbol; Mary; woman and person; reciprocity; the incarnation of the Word; the impossibility of female presbyteral vocation; the value of doctrines; and the sacramental sign and substance of a sacrament. In conclusion, a prayer for female presbyteral ordination is proposed. (Series: Theology: Research and Science / Theologie: Forschung und Wissenschaft, Vol. 60) [Subject: Gender Studies, Catholic Studies, Religious Studies, History]
Download or read book Holy Saturday written by Phyllis Zagano and published by Herder & Herder. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A serious effort to faithfully think along with the Magisterium on a crucial situation of the present church. Zagano argues no formal relationship between a woman and the hierarchical church is possible at a time when women abound in many ministerial and parish positions.
Download or read book A New Phoebe written by Virginia Kaib Ratigan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1990 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the re-introduction of the permanent diaconate for men after the Second Vatican Council there has been debate over whether women should be included. Would diaconal ordination be a support in the charitable and ecclesiastical tasks women are already performing? Is it necessary? Would it be a help or a hindrance in women's attaining the priesthood? In A New Phoebe, women in the U.S. and German--the two countries with the most deacons--write about their ideas and experiences of ministry: some would seek the diaconate if it were open, others would not. The concluding essays, including an interview with Bishop Ernest Unterkoefler, the first chair of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on the Permanent Diaconate, provide additional historical background.
Download or read book Women in Ministry written by Phyllis Zagano and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pope Paul VI implemented the decision of the Second Vatican Council to renew the diaconate as a permanent order of ministry, he asked the logical question: "What about women deacons?" That question continues to be asked throughout the Church as the possibility of restoring women to the diaconate emerges more and more as a pressing answer to the ministerial needs of the Church. In Women in Ministry: Emerging Questions about the Diaconate, theologian Phyllis Zagano examines three distinct questions about the possibility of women in the diaconate: Is the inclusion of women in the permanent diaconate part of the unfinished business of Vatican II? What are the ecumenical implications of women ordained as deacons? Did Pope Benedict XVI envision the inclusion of women in the diaconate? These three timely and important essays are introduced by Deacon William T. Ditewig, PhD, director of lay and deacon formation in the Diocese of Monterey in California and former executive director of the Secretariat for the Diaconate of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, DC. Book jacket.
Download or read book Women Priests written by Leonard J. Swidler and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women and Catholic Priesthood written by Anne Marie Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handmaids Or Autonomous Women written by Florence Jean Deacon and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mystical Priesthood of the Mother of God written by Walda Taylor-Javier and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pope John Paul II has claimed to have no authority to ordain women to the priesthood. Since the Catholic Church believes that all legitimate authority is derived from its source—God, the Creator, Dr. Javier shows how the authority is present in the Church to ordain women priests by virtue of God's own example. In choosing Mary as the one human parent of Jesus, the Christ, God ordained her priest by definition. Dr. Javier shows how the belief has been implicit in the Church since its inception, using scripture, tradition, and theological writings including those of Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger. Examining the need of today's church for priestly vocations and the expressed desire of women to serve the Church through the Sacrament of Holy Orders, Dr. Javier concludes that Mary, the Mother of God, first woman priest, is the exemplar for the ordination of women.
Download or read book Handmaids Or Autonomous Women written by Sister Florence Jean Deacon (O.S.F.) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women Deacons written by Gary Macy and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three related essays by experts on the diaconate that examine the concept of women deacons in the Catholic Church from Thistorical, contemporary, and future perspectives.
Download or read book The First Epistle of Clemens Romanus to the Church at Corinth written by Pope Clement I and published by . This book was released on 1768 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Official Catholic Directory for the Year of Our Lord written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 2414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
