Women's Ordination in the Catholic Church

by John O'Brien

Book Overview

Women's Ordination in the Catholic Church argues that women can be validly ordained to ministerial office. O'Brien shows that claims by Roman dicasteries for an unbroken chain of authoritative tradition on the non-ordainability of women--a novel rather than traditional argument--are not historically supported. In the primitive Church, with the offices of deacon, presbyter, and bishop in process of development, women exercised ministries later understood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1725268043
• ISBN13: 9781725268043
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"