Women Religious, Women Deacons: Questions and Answers

St. Phoebe is depicted in an icon by Eka Fragiadaki of the Angelicon workshop in Crete, Greece. (Angelicon/Eka Fragiadaki)

Women Religious, Women Deacons Q&A: Why would the ministry of women religious/women deacons be beneficial?

Essay, Part 5 of 5: The discussion about women deacons has always been about ministry. It has been about ministry because the ministry of women is about the needs of the church. It is not about clerical power.

Phyllis Zagano

Laity and religious hold a rally in support of nuns gathered for the August 2012 assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in St. Louis. Earlier that year, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had ordered reform of the o

Women Religious, Women Deacons Q&A: Would ordination co-opt women's religious life?

By Phyllis Zagano

Women Religious, Women Deacons Q&A: Who could be the general superior?

By Phyllis Zagano

The mosaic of the Holy Virgins, in the sixth-century Church of St. Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, Italy (Wikimedia Commons/Sailko)

Women Religious, Women Deacons Q&A: What about ordained women religious?

By Phyllis Zagano

Women Religious, Women Deacons: Questions and Answers

Women Religious, Women Deacons Q&A: Why would the ministry of women religious/women deacons be beneficial?

Women Religious, Women Deacons Q&A: Would ordination co-opt women's religious life?

Women Religious, Women Deacons Q&A: Who could be the general superior?

Women Religious, Women Deacons Q&A: What about ordained women religious?

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