Posted on 08/04/2016 9:34:40 AM PDT by marshmallow
In May, Pope Francis remarked that the Catholic Church should study whether women could be “reinstated” as deacons — a proposal that could introduce a role for women in the Catholic clergy that has been open only to men for centuries.
On Tuesday, he made good on that comment, made last spring to a gathering of nuns. The Vatican announced the members of the new Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women, whose examinations may weigh both church tradition and also possibly take stock of contemporary views and needs among Catholic clergy and worshipers.
Seven men and six women will serve on the committee. They include priests, nuns and professors; several live in Rome, but one, Phyllis Zagano, teaches at Hofstra University in New York. Zagano has written a book entitled “Holy Saturday: An Argument for the Restoration of the Female Diaconate in the Catholic Church.”
“The dignity of women to be recognized as able to minister as part of the ordained diaconate — to recognize that dignity is world-changing,” Zagano said in an interview with The Washington Post shortly after she learned she had been tapped for the committee. “I think it really speaks specifically to the way the church views women. My hope for the commission would be that it would make a decision.”
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Lesbians will flock into the positions.
Count on it.
Francis is providing great clarity as to the nature of the novus ordo church.
However, if it undermines the Catholic Church in some way, I am sure this particular Pope will do it.
The best practical argument against female clergy is the manifest unfitness for office of those who clamor for it.
Six women and three Jesuits on a committee of thirteen: as usual, the Francis fix is in for a predetermined end result.
It would be world-changing in the sense that ordaining women (which is what women deacons would mean) would lead to a schism. You would see cardinals and bishops openly opposing this, there would be purges, etc... It would be the biggest smash-up in Catholicism in I don’t know how many centuries.
He’ll be Anti-Pope Francis I in the New Age Catholic Church after the coming Schism.
The ancient office of Deaconess was absolutely *NOT* equivalent to a “female Deacon.” The only point to this office now, especially in the West, is as a prelude to ordaining priestesses.
Yes, it certainly is that, and with the example of ECUSA glaring right in his face, you'd have to regard it as a purposeful work of destruction by Francis.
IMHO, this is spiritual transgenderism. Next thing will be men acting as nuns.
Dear Lord, we need help!
Maybe I can’t really comment on this,not being Catholic,but it seems to me that this Pope is bonkers.
It will certainly shrink the Roman Catholic Church down to its wannabe Episcopalian members.
Obama and Bergoglio- birds of a feather, taking down the two greatest institutions of Western Civilization.
Bonkers or not, he is not Catholic.
Yeah, that it's not Catholic.
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