Sarah Cate’s Reviews > Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry > Status Update

Hearing the story of Maria Acacia and her paintings of Saint Fabiola in Dr. Barr’s podcast, All The Buried Women, had me sobbing over a sink. Reading it brought nearly the same reaction.

“Ordination has less to do with what an individual can or cannot do in the church and more to do with the power or prestige assigned to their position while doing it.” PHEW. Ask me about my lived experience in this quote, y’all.