Our Library

Special documents, ancient and new

Look here for excerpts, quotes, shorter texts of some historical significance.

• Rome's main documents relating to the ordination of women
• The Fathers of the Church involved in the discussion on the ordination of women
• Church Councils and Local Synods laying down rules regarding women
• The evidence for sacramentally ordained women deacons
• Medieval theologians who wrote on the ordination of women
• Post-scholastic theologians and what they said about women
• Church law and Church lawyers legislating about women
• Contemporary theologians who reject Rome's claim that the issue of women priests ‘has already been settled infallibly’
• Catholic scholars pro & con
• Recent Church Councils and their relevant texts
• Documents relating to the devotion to Mary Priest.
• Women called to the priesthood.
• The ‘body, sex and gender’ section.
• The ecumenical section.
• Books reviewed on this web site.
• The section on devotion to St. Mary Magdalen
• The section on the duty of speaking out.
• Mistakes and errors by Popes.
• The scriptural texts quoted in the discussion

Recent theological writings

Here you can find articles, chapters or whole books relating to the question of women’s ordination that have been published on our website.