[We are Concerned that She] Wears Her Feminism on Her Sleeve: Challenges in Becoming a Deacon's Wife

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When Lily met Peter, he was studying to be a Roman Catholic priest. And by all accounts, Peter would have made an excellent priest. But Lily and Peter fell in love, and as a rule, the Roman Catholic Church doesn’t allow married men (or women of any kind) to be ordained priests. Dozens of distinguished Catholic theologians and hundreds of thousands of other “practicing Catholics” (including Lily and Peter) disagree with this, but the rule remains. So Peter decided not to become a priest, and Lily and Peter got married and had two children. Lily became a university professor, while Peter spent his entire adult life in various (non-priestly) ministries, such as a parish administrator, a parish-based youth leader, a Catholic hospital chaplain, the director of an urban Catholic volunteer corps, and the director of a Catholic university ministry division at Lily’s university.