Ordination as Equals

Can Thai Theravada nuns and Roman Catholic women priests shatter the clerical glass ceiling?

By Victoria Rue

During her ordination as a Theravada nun at Thailand’s Songdhammakalyani monastery, Jiep collects her hair in a lotus leaf.

 

 

 

 

 

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