Women Called to the Diaconate
 
	 The present 
	  
		 
		   
		  Moya St Leger,
			 resident in Great Britain, journalist and political reformer. She offered
			 herself as a candidate for the diaconate to her bishop. 
		    
		   
		  Angelika
			 Fromm
Purple Stole Action, member of Maria of Magdala,
			 Germany 
		    
		 
		 
		    
		    
		  Feel free to tell your story, if you feel, or felt, called to
			 the diaconate! 
		    
		    
		    
		 
	  
	  
		Women Deacons: Goodwill Gestures, by Moya
		  Frenz St Leger, The Catholic Herald, August 19, 1990, p. 5. 
		‘Should Roman Catholic Women seek to be
		  ordained Deacons?’ by John Collins, Ordination of Catholic Women
		  Newsletter vol. 3, no. 1 (April 1996) pp. 5-11. 
		‘The diaconate - a ministry
		  for women in the Church’, by Ida Raming, Orientierung 62 (1998)
		  pp. 8-11. 
		‘Contextualising Dorothea
		  Reininger’s Women Deacons’, by John Collins (WOCIL 2001). This is
		  an excellent introduction to the complex issues surrounding the future
		  diaconate of women. 
		Bibliography on women deacons by
		  John Collins 
		‘Letter to Catholic
		  Women’, by John Collins, from Letters to Deacons, 1999. 
		‘Once again, women are being
		  cast out of the Catholic Church’, by Angela Cornyn, Sunday
		  Independent 15th Oct. 2000. 
		More articles to follow! 
	  
	 The past 
	 From at least the 3rd to the 8th centuries women were
		sacramentally ordained as deacons in the Catholic Church! 
	 Read more about this here: 
	  
		General
		  survey of the women deacons of the early Church 
		Women
		  Deacons in historical records 
		Lists of Women Deacon
		  Saints 
	  
	  
		 
		   
			  
				 
				  Overview 
				  Signs of a
					 Vocation 
				  A woman's
					 journey 
				  Steps to
					 take 
				  Answering
					 critics 
				  Writing your
					 story 
				 
			  
		 
		 
		  Six options for Catholic women who feel called to the
			 priesthood? 
		 
	 

  
    
	   
     
   
   

   
     
        
      
        
                  
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	Moya St Leger, resident in Great Britain, journalist and political reformer. She offered herself as a candidate for the diaconate to her bishop.			Angelika Fromm Purple Stole Action, member of Maria of Magdala, Germany
		Feel free to tell your story, if you feel, or felt, called to the diaconate!