Overview of Documentation

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Overview of Documentation

The purpose of this document is to help you find the resource material you are looking for through these lists.

You will find more extensive lists on our Site Map!

At present we can offer the following tables:

  1. Overview of Rome's main documents relating to the ordination of women
  2. Overview of the scriptural texts quoted in the discussion
  3. Overview of the Fathers of the Church involved in the discussion on the ordination of women
  4. Overview of Church Councils and Local Synods laying down rules regarding women
  5. Overview of the evidence for sacramentally ordained women deacons
  6. Overview of medieval theologians who wrote on the ordination of women
  7. Overview of post-scholastic theologians and what they said about women
  8. Overview of Church law and Church lawyers legislating about women
  9. Overview of contemporary theologians who reject Rome's claim that the issue of women priests ‘has already been settled infallibly’
  10. Overview of publications by contemporary theologians
  11. Overview of recent Church Councils and their relevant texts
  12. Overview of documents relating to the devotion to Mary Priest.
  13. Overview of women called to the priesthood.
  14. Overview of the ‘body, sex and gender’ section.
  15. Overview of the ecumenical section.
  16. Overview of books reviewed on this web site.
  17. Overview of the section on devotion to St. Mary Magdalen
  18. Overview of the section on the duty of speaking out.
  19. Overview of mistakes and errors by Popes.
For related online Libraries see:  

The ORDINATION OF WOMEN in the Catholic Church

Catherine of Siena VIRTUAL COLLEGE
THE BODY IS SACRED MYSTERY AND BEYOND

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