As a student in Trinity College Dublin, Soline Humbert experienced a call to the priesthood in the Catholic Church, which she was unable to pursue because of the ban on women’s ordination. She found herself on a collision course with a powerful church hierarchy intent on quashing any such vocation, and was even warned of excommunication if she persisted.\nIn this ground-breaking memoir, Soline candidly shares her struggles, her dark nights of the soul and her ecstasies, as well as her decades-long effort to bring about an end to women’s exclusion from the priesthood. She is told again and again: ‘The door to women’s ordination was shut and would remain shut.’ And that was that.\nBut as the Catholic Church continues its decline in weekly Mass attendance, its huge drop in male celibate priestly vocations and waning cultural significance, as it reels from decades of scandals due to child sexual abuse by clergy, it is becoming increasingly clear that the time for change is at hand. A Divine Calling is an inspirational story of hope, courage, determination and one woman’s passionate desire to make a difference.\nTable of Contents\nContents 
Foreword by Mary McAleese vii 
Prologue 2 
1. A French Childhood 7 2. Ireland’s Call and God’s Call 35 3. The Lord’s Year of Favour 64 
4. Brothers And Sisters In Christ 75 
5. A Woman of Sorrow 103 
6. A Woman at the Altar 132 
7. Women’s Ordination Worldwide 161 
8. Mary of Magdala 181 
9. No Woman, No Church 207 
10. Epilogue 236 
Select Bibliography 239 
Acknowledgements 240 
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