In devoting an issue of Network to the subject of Women’s Ministry, it is inevitable that several articles will be concerned with the question of ordained ministry. We welcome this, including the debate as to whether women seeking to become priests should act ‘contra legem’ now, and perform their ministry on the margins. Should they instead participate in the struggle to change the whole nature of the priesthood into something closer to the vision of Christ as articulated to his disciples, and represented in his own life: in effect, service to humanity? There is also the discussion as to whether the concept of ‘the priesthood of the faithful’ means that all followers of Christ are priests. It is clear from the Gospels that everyone is called to some form of ministry......

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