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Wives of Catholic Clergy
Joseph H. Fichter
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Description for Wives of Catholic Clergy
Paperback. The Catholic women about whom we know the least historically were the wives of the clergy, starting with the Apostles, bishops, presbyters, and deacons of early Christianity. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
The Catholic women about whom we know the least historically were the wives of the clergy, starting with the Apostles, bishops, presbyters, and deacons of early Christianity. Even though prelates and priests continued for more than a thousand years to marry and to father children, we know little or nothing about the wives, whose life experience, and even their names have been erased from history. Now they are coming back into prominence, mainly as the wives of noncanonical priests, some as wives of convert Episcopal priests, and many as the wives of ordained permanent deacons. In America, as elsewhere, the ... Read more
The Catholic women about whom we know the least historically were the wives of the clergy, starting with the Apostles, bishops, presbyters, and deacons of early Christianity. Even though prelates and priests continued for more than a thousand years to marry and to father children, we know little or nothing about the wives, whose life experience, and even their names have been erased from history. Now they are coming back into prominence, mainly as the wives of noncanonical priests, some as wives of convert Episcopal priests, and many as the wives of ordained permanent deacons. In America, as elsewhere, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Sheed & Ward
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
Kansas City, United States
ISBN
9781556124747
SKU
V9781556124747
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Ref
99-15
About Joseph H. Fichter
Joseph H. Fichter is a Jesuit priest and professor of Sociology at Loyola University of the South. He is the author of 28 books and numerous scholarly articles in the field of sociology.
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