text: The history of the place of women in the Church is useful to recall.  After the issue of women in ordained positions was suppressed in the earliest centuries of our existence, it came up again starting in the early 1500's when Angela Merici founded a "company of women," who would wear no habit, not live in cloister, with only a private vow of chastity and perform works of great charity based on what Christ instructed us to do.  There were others to follow who attempted the same thing, but all were made to eventually wear habits, develop a rule, live in cloister; Cardinal Charles Borromeo imposed further conditions and that was the origins of the Ursulines, and the Sisters of Charity, and other orders that started out as a purely Catholic charitable groups doing the work of Evangelization.  This is the history of at least a dozen groups that were forced into cloisters.  And now we want to have women ordained?  What are the historical steps we have to make it happen?
  
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