Description According to historical church documents, during the first millennium tens of thousands of Women served the Catholic Church as ordained deacons.
In this book ten contemporary Women Tell the Stories of journeys that have been both difficult and joyful on the path to Ordination as deacons, priests, and bishops, and of the ritual experience at altar and in living rooms where they are led to red.
Since that time Women have been denied both diaconal and priestly ordination.
Description According to historical church documents, during the first millennium tens of thousands of Women served the Catholic Church as ordained deacons