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Teresa Hanlon was doing ministry within her church long before she was ordained. But when she became a priest, her Church excommunicated her and inhibited her from doing the work she loved. Providentially, for her and the other women priests ordained within the Catholic tradition (if not in the Roman Catholic Church itself), it was not an ending. It was a beginning,  signalling perhaps the rebirth of Christianity itself ... with women at the table.

Acronyms & their links:
LICCF (Lethbridge Inclusive Catholic Community Fellowship): https://liccf.ca
RCWPC (Roman Catholic Women Priests Canada): http://rcwpcanada.ca/
CNWE (Catholic Network for Women's Equality): https://www.cnwe.org
WOW (Women's Ordination Worldwide): http://womensordinationcampaign.org
WOC (Women's Ordination Conference): https://www.womensordination.org

Recommended Resources:
1) Womanpriest:Tradition and Transgression in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Church (New York: Fordham University Press, 2020) by Jill Peterfeso
Available online https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37528
2) VIDEO Pink Smoke over the Vatican: www.pinksmokeoverthevatican.com 2011
3) Mary and Early Christian Women by Ally Kateusz, Ally: ham, Switzerland, 2019 available online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331185040_Mary_and_Early_Christian_Women_Hidden_Leadership
4) A PERIODICAL which reviews relevant news with some original material (Teresa's story found here as well): The Review RCWP Canada online, twice monthly review of RC women topics including ordination. https://rcwpcanada.altervista.org/
5) My Journey from Silence to Solidarity: The Life story of Roy Bourgeois, (Maryknoll priest  of 40 years excommunicated and expelled from his order because of support for a woman friend's Catholic ordination).    http://www.roybourgeoisjourney.org/book/book.pdf
6) Interview of author of biography of RC women's ordination behind the Iron Curtain through a contemporary, online ministry called FUTURE CHURCH https://futurechurch.org/women-in-church-leadership/pope-francis-meet-your-priest-ludmilla-javarova-with-miriam-therese-winter/

Personal Links
My web site (where you can sign up for my blog): https://www.brianepearson.ca
My email address: [email protected]

Series Music Credit
"Into the Mystic" by Van Morrison, performed by Colin James, from the album, Limelight, 2005; licensed under SOCAN 2022