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The Vocation of Celibacy among Laywomen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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While the third session of the Vatican Council has many problems of the highest importance to consider, for the benefit of the whole Church and also for particular sections of it, there seems to be extant today a situation of comparatively recent origin which has never been thoroughly examined, discussed, or pronounced upon in any authoritative discourse, and yet it is one of which more people are becoming increasingly conscious: it is the problem of celibate women and the part they play the mystical body.

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Copyright © 1964 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers