"This well-supported investigation recovers a great deal of evidence that the church rejected the service of women, but only a few instances where women seem to have been leaders."

     Amy L. B. Peeler on Women in pastoral ministry:  the story of Santa Praxede, Rome, by Mary M. Schaefer (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2013), in "Praxede's story and the church in Rome she inspired," Books and culture 21, no. 1 (January/February 2015):  22 (21-22).