Patricia Kieran

Steward of a Living Tradition

Discipleship & Christian Education

“This book is a collection of beautifully written, accessible, eminently readable and scholarly chapters. It is essential reading for those interested in how Christian faith and theological understanding relate to educational practice. The book is a testament to and a record of John Sullivan’s exceptional lifetime’s work as a Christian educator in secondary schools, universities and in the church.”

Women’s Ordination in the Catholic Church

Theology

“This theologically innovative book is beautifully written and powerfully argued. It focuses on the ‘provocative other,’ the quasi-silenced voice of women and surveys the ministry of outstanding women in the New Testament, highlights widespread female ministry in the first millennium and argues that the ordination of women represents a necessary pastoral-theological development whose time has come. It is an outstanding volume that challenges the notion that Catholic doctrine on female ordination is immutable and fixed.”