Catholic women called to the Priesthood

Women in the past with a priestly vocation		Present-day women with a vocation to the priesthood
Are priestly vocations from God?	Women with a vocation to the diaconate	Read the beautiful poems and images by Tina van Lieshout who felt called to the priestly ministry

Vocation Support

Initial ‘self-test’ to probe your vocation	How do I know that I am called to the priesthood?	Reflections on a Woman’s Journey to Ordination	What steps should a woman take if she thinks she has a calling to ordination in the Catholic Church?
Is a woman’s vocation as ‘authentic’ as that of a man?	Does anyone have the right to ordination?	How do I answer critics who doubt my vocation?	How to write your vocation story for us

Six options for Catholic women who feel called to the priesthood?

Further Documentation

Optatam totius on fostering priestly vocations
‘Are women called to be priests?’ by John Wijngaards, the Tablet, 8 April 2000
Correspondence in the Tablet
‘The Forbidden Subject: The Ordination of Women’ by Jeanne Pieper
‘New Roles for Women in the Institutional Church’ by Jeanne Pieper
‘A Psychological Investigation of 100 women who feel called to the Priesthood in the Catholic Church’, by Fran Ferder.
Called to Priesthood: Interpreting Women’s Experience,by Mary Tanner
Setting the Scene (on the Anglican ordination story), by Christina Rees

Reviews of relevant books

The Catholic Woman, by Jeanne Pieper
Zur Priesterin Berufen by Ida Raming, Gertrud Jansen, Iris Müller und Mechtilde Neuendorff
In Good Company by Leslie Orr Macdonald

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