Holy Saturday :
Zagano, Phyllis.
Holy Saturday : an argument for the restoration of the female diaconate in the Catholic Church / Phyllis Zagano. - New York : Crossroad Pub., c2000. - ix, 182 p. ; 23 cm.
"A Herder & Herder book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Church must formalize the ministry of women -- Men and women are ontologically equal -- The Church has given reasons why women, although ontologically equal to men, may not be ordained to priesthood -- The judgment that women cannot be ordained priests does not apply to the question of whether women can be ordained deacons -- Women are and have been called to the diaconate -- There are stronger arguments from Scripture, history, tradition, and theology that women may be ordained deacons than that women may not be ordained deacons -- Women have continually served the Church in diaconal ministry, whether ordained to such service or not -- The ordained ministry of service by women is necessary to the Church, that is, to both the people of God and the hierarchy -- The ordination of women to the diaconate is possible.
0824518322
00008201
Deaconesses--Catholic Church.
BX1912.2 / .Z34 2000
262/.142/082
Holy Saturday : an argument for the restoration of the female diaconate in the Catholic Church / Phyllis Zagano. - New York : Crossroad Pub., c2000. - ix, 182 p. ; 23 cm.
"A Herder & Herder book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Church must formalize the ministry of women -- Men and women are ontologically equal -- The Church has given reasons why women, although ontologically equal to men, may not be ordained to priesthood -- The judgment that women cannot be ordained priests does not apply to the question of whether women can be ordained deacons -- Women are and have been called to the diaconate -- There are stronger arguments from Scripture, history, tradition, and theology that women may be ordained deacons than that women may not be ordained deacons -- Women have continually served the Church in diaconal ministry, whether ordained to such service or not -- The ordained ministry of service by women is necessary to the Church, that is, to both the people of God and the hierarchy -- The ordination of women to the diaconate is possible.
0824518322
00008201
Deaconesses--Catholic Church.
BX1912.2 / .Z34 2000
262/.142/082