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Article: These stones shall speak: on pilgrimage with Dorothy Irvin in Rome.
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- June 4, 2006
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"Archaeology is an essential support for doing theology," Dorothy Irvin tells her 30 listeners at a retreat house in Rome. For Irvin, doing archaeology is a spiritual experience. Studying the rocks, stones and the markings from the past "has altered our theology and will do so even more dramatically over the next 20 years, especially the Catholic concept of ordination."
A contented member of a progressive parish in St Paul, Minn, Irvin, 67, spends many months a year poring over sites in the Ancient Near East, Italy, Turkey and Jordan. She is finding strong evidence that women were office holders in the early church: deacons, priests and bishops. She provides ...