Sentences with phrase «female diaconate»

In the meantime, the female diaconate was undergoing significant expansion, but exclusively in the East.

For the whole of the evidence on the female diaconate, see the well - documented but insufficiently integrated Report to the Archbishop of Canterbury entitled The Ministry of Women (London, 1919); also G. Huls, De dienstder vrouw in de Kerk (Wageningen, 1951).

Edmund Nash recommends an important briefing on pro-life issues; Charles Briggs on a gripping account of the papacy of Pius VII; Kate Sutcliffe on a timely and helpful study on how the worlds religions might work together for world peace and Hans Feichtinger on an important and authoritative study of the case for the female diaconate.