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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