Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church: Unmasking a Cuckoo’s Egg Tradition

John Wijngaards may be the only Roman Catholic priest to have resigned from the priesthood because of the churchs refusal to ordain women. A biblical scholar and a popular spiritual writer hes long been a supporter of womens ordination. He wrote a book championing it in 1977 and the following year he attended the National Womens Ordination Conference in Baltimore one of the few men to do so. In 1998 he resigned from the priesthood to devote himself full time to the campaign for womens ordination. This book is the result.In this engaging and informative book the author shows how the churchs anti-woman tradition is a veritable cuckoos egg–a spurious import from Greek philosophy that destroys all contrary evidence from scripture and tradition (for instance the fact that for many centuries women were ordained deacons). Offering a rigorous examination of Romes arguments the book includes extracts from key materials and supplies website links to comprehensive documentation making this the most complete and authoritative resource on the issue.