| FutureChurch | A regional parish-based coalition seeking to address the priest shortage. FutureChurch claims the remedy is the ordination of married men and women. FutureChurch engages in educational presentations to parishes, grass-roots organizations, and the media. Its current project is a nationally-promoted dialogue on an "inclusive priesthood." Member of Catholic Organizations for Renewal |
Consider, too, that St. John Chrosostom, who appointed more women as deaconnesses than any other Bishop in history, very clearly recruited them for charitable works, and for catechizing and baptizing women and children (since the baptized person, in those days, was immersed naked ian the waters of baptism, and for obvious reasons it was considered necessary for deaconesses to confer this sacrament.)