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Carolyn Ancell

Carolyn Ancell

Carolyn Ancell is a writer and musician in Tucson, Arizona. She has authored 18 books and numerous articles on liturgy and the liturgical arts and is a retired "chaplain with a harp."

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Stained glass at Fatima sanctuary (Dreamstime/Marion Meyer)

In a church that has yet to deal justly with women, I stay a keeper of the vision

I will forever ask, "Why?" Why couldn't I be ordained by my own church for service in hospice, hospital, a retreat center, the military, a women's prison, a battered women's shelter, a parish church?

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