Maureen O'Connell

Maureen O'Connell

Maureen O'Connell is professor of Christian ethics at La Salle University in Philadelphia and director of synod and higher education engagement for Discerning Deacons, a project to support the church's active discernment about the women in the diaconate. 

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Phyllis Zagano speaks during a 2019 symposium on the history and future of women deacons at Fordham University. Looking on is Jesuit Fr. Bernard Pottier, a member of the Vatican's International Theological Commission.

'Just Church' is the definitive book on women and synodality

As we near the Synod of Bishops, in which, for the first time,  more than 50 women will have voting status, Phyllis Zagano's Just Church: Catholic Social Teaching, Synodality, and Women is relevant and timely.  

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