Overview of Documents on Tradition on Our Website
| John of Telo |
| Letter of Atto, Bishop of Vercelli, to the priest Ambrose |
| Letters concerning Women Deacons published in the Tablet |
| Local Council of Gangra |
| Man Superior to Woman |
| Man Superior to Woman or A Vindication of Man’s Natural Right of Sovereign Authority over women by a Gentleman, London 1739 |
| Manuscript Barberini gr. 336 |
| Manuscript Barberini gr. 336 -Greek texts |
| Manuscript Coislin 213gr-folium33r |
| Manuscript Coislin 213gr-folium33v |
| Opponents to the Sacramental Character of Women Deacons |
| Overview of ancient Church Councils and Local Synods laying down rules |
| Overview of Church law and Church lawyers legislating about women |
| Overview of documents on Tradition on our website |
| Overview of documents on the Ordination of Women and Tradition |
| Overview of the Fathers of the Church involved in the discussion on the ordination of women |
| Overview since Apostolic Times |
| Post-medieval Theologians and ‘Women Priests’ |
| Prejudice does not invalidate Tradition |
| Press Debate on Women and the Diaconate |
| Priesthood, Precedent and Prejudice by Professor Giorgio Otranto |
| Pseudo-Augustine |
| Reconstructed Text from Seven Manuscripts |
| Sexuality, Gender and Christian Identity in the Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries by R.P. Fisher |
| St. Irenaeus |
| St. John Chrysostom |
| Statuta Ecclesiae Antiqua |
| Synod of Laodicea |
| Tertullian |
| The ‘False Decretals’ |
| The History of Women Deacons |
| The ‘tradition’ of not ordaining women priests was not part of the real Tradition of the Church |
| The Apostolic Constitutions |
| The Apostolic Constitutions, Book VIII |
| The Barberini gr.336 Manuscript Introduction by Stefano Parenti |
| The Bessarion Manuscript |
| The Canons of Bishop Timothy |
| The Canons of Dionysius |
| The Canons of St. Basil |
| The Canons of the 217 Blessed Fathers who Assembled at Carthage |
| The Canons of the Council of Trullo |
| The Canons of the Holy and Altogether August Apostles |
| The Canons of the Synod of Orange |
| The Code of Canon Law, 1917 |
| The Code of Church Law, 1983 |
| The Coislin gr. 213 Manuscript |
| The Construction of Women’s Difference in the Christian Theological Traditon by Elisabeth Gössman |
| The crumbling of the institutional Church prejudice |
| The Didascalia Apostolorum |
| The Donation of Constantine |
| The Episcopal Jurisdiction of Abbesses by Joan Morris |
| The Fathers and the question of ‘Women Priests’ |
| ‘Latent’ Tradition in the Church by John Wijngaards |
| The latent Tradition, throughout the centuries |
| The Ordination of Women Deacons |
| The Ordination of Women Deacons according to the Apostolic Constitutions |
| The Ordination of Women Deacons in the Syriac Tradition |
| The Origin of the Fittest: Essays on Evolution by E.D.Cope |
| The penitential of Bishop Theodore of Canterbury (died 690 AD) |
| The Problem of the Ordination of Women in the Early Christian Priesthood by Giorgio Otranto |
| The Rabbinical Tradition regarding Menstruation |
| The Rhipidion |
| The Rights of Women According to Roman Law |
| ‘Searching for the Tradition’ by James Hennessey SJ |
| “Stones will Cry Out” by Joan Morris |
| The Superiority of Men over Women founded on Custom and Tradition by a ‘Gentleman’ |
| The Synod of Auxerre |
| The Synod of Rouen |
| The Tasks of Women Deacons |
| The Theory of Developments in Religious Doctrine, 1843 by John Henry Newman |
| The truly Christian response to the menstruation taboo |
| The Vision of Women by Carolly Erickson |
| The Walesby Tank by Charles Thomas |
| The Woman Deacon’s role at Baptism |
| Traditio Apostolica |
| Traditio perpetuo servata? by Hervé Legrand |
| Tradition and reasoning: a nonfoundationalist perspective by John E Thiel |
| Tradition and the Fathers from Inter Insignores |
| Tradition and Women’s Ministries from Inter Insignores |
| Tradition in Post-Scholastic Theology from Inter Insignores |
| Tradition in the Middle Ages from Inter Insignores |
| Tradition must be Informed |
| Overview of Traditons in Scripture and the Church |
| True Tradition in the Church is Dynamic and Growing |
| Valid Tradition is Scriptural |
| Vatican II on Tradition |
| Vatican Manuscript, gr. 1872 |
| Views on the Ordination of Women by Fr.Herve-Marie Legrand,OP |
| What Capacity the Women have for Sciences by ‘a Gentleman’, London 1739, |
| When women were deacons |
| When Women Were Priests: Women’s Leadership in the Early Church. Book review by Theresia Saers |
| Whether the Women are equally qualified with Men for Government and Public Offices by ‘a Gentleman’, London 1739 |
| Whether Women are equal to Men in their intellectual Capacity, or not by ‘a Gentleman, London 1739 |
| Whether Women are Human Beings? by ‘Anon’ trans.from German |
| Whether Women are naturally qualified for Military Offices or not? by ‘a gentleman’, London 1739 |
| Women and girls were not allowed to be singers in Church |
| Women as deacons |
| Women Deaconesses in Historical Records |
| Women deacons |
| Women Deacons – Overview |
| Women in the Church Interpreting the past, envisaging the future by Megan Walker |
| Women or Girls serving at Mass?! |
| Women Overseers of Churches by Joan Morris |
| Women Priests in the Ancient Church |
| “Women’s Quarrel” roughly 1500-1800, a series of articles. |
| Women were considered Inferior Creatures |
| Women were considered Ritually Unclean |
| Women were considered to be in a state of punishment for sin |