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Getting Started

  • Getting Started: FAQ and How to Use These Resources
  • Letter to Clergy Template
  • Purchase Women Deacons Past Present and Future

Reasons to Ordain Women Deacons

  • Reasons to Restore the Tradition of Ordaining Women Deacons
  • Ordain Catholic Women as Deacons by Phyllis Zagano, Ph.D.
  • Not A Novelty: The Eastern Orthodox Case for Deaconesses by Carrie Frederick Frost

Clergy Statements on Women Deacons

  • Statement from the Association of United States Catholic Priests
  • Why Not Women? - Retired Auxiliary Bishop Emil Wcela, Rockville Centre, NY
  • Excerpts from an America Magazine interview with Archbishop Durocher, Gatineau, Canada

Historical Questions

  • A Brief History of Women Deacons
  • Names of Women Who Served as Deacons in the Early Church
  • Profile of Phoebe, deacon
  • Profile of Radegund, deacon
  • Profile of Dionysia of Militene, deacon

Theological Questions

  • Canonical Implications of Ordaining Women to the Permanent Diaconate - Canon Law Society of America
  • Theological Explorations: Women Deacons in the Catholic Church

 

 

 

 

 

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