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A Clergy Husband's Survival Guide
Women now comprise a significant percentage of the priests serving in the Church of England. As a result, many male clergy spouses, like Matthew Caminer, have had to come to terms with the seismic shift that occurs in family life when a wife embarks on the journey from exploration of vocation - through selection, training and formation - to ordination and a life of ministry. The author had his own busy career when he suddenly found himself playing second fiddle rather than being the 'doer' in the household. Not only did this subtly affect his marriage, but as friends and acquaintances became 'parishioners', he was required to respect boundaries, to be discreet and often to carry the burden o...
Wives of Catholic Clergy
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 role and status of Catholic women are changing in significant directions. Their official acceptance by the institutional Church helps to offset traditional sexism and clericalism.
Double Blessing
Examining the clergy marriage in general, this text looks at the effects of women's ordination on dual clergy marriages, their careers and family life. It is based on research done on clergy couples during the time leading up to and immediately after the ordination of women.
Presbytera
This book provides a wide range of information, both theoretical and practical, about the Orthodox Christian priests wife as she shares her husbands ministry. It will be valuable to the wives of priests and seminarians a diverse group of women from different Orthodox jurisdictions as well as clergy, parishioners, and others interested in learning more about them.
The Pastor's Wife
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