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Card. Müller on the ordination of Deaconettes: “not necessary and not possible”
wdtprs.com ^ | February 17, 2017 | Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Posted on 02/17/2017 5:25:12 PM PST by Petrosius

As you may remember, some months ago Pope Francis saw to the creation of a group to study the question of female deacons (aka deaconesses, aka deaconettes). Last November, when the group met for the first time, I wrote: “Their slow march to the vanishing point has begun.”

Perhaps that march won’t be so slow after all.

I saw an interesting story at the German language site Kathnet. Gerhard Ludwig Card. Müller, Prefect of the CDF, isn’t encouraging the proponents of the ordination of women.

Kardinal Müller, Präfekt der Glaubenskongregation, im Interview mit der „Rheinischen Post“: Bischofs-, Priester- und Diakonenweihe für Frauen „nicht notwendig und nicht möglich, wie es sich aus diversen Studien auch der Glaubenskongregation“ ergebe.

Cardinal Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Congregation of the Faith, in an interview with the “Rheinische Post”: The ordination of women as bishops, priests and deacons is “not necessary and not possible, as it is evident from various studies of the Congregation for the Congregation of the Faith.“

The CDF is supervising the deaconette study group and the CDF’s Secretary, Archbp. Ladaria, is its chief.

I find the timing of the interview and this statement interesting, given that they will probably be meeting again before too long.

The original interview in German HERE.

Sehen Sie denn als sogenannter Glaubenswächter eine Chance, dass in der katholischen Kirche noch einmal über das Weiheamt auch für Frauen gesprochen wird?
Müller Frauen sind immer wichtig gewesen für das ganze kirchliche Leben – im Bereich der Erziehung, der Bildung und Wissenschaft, der kirchlichen Verwaltung, in der Ehe, Familie. Das Sakrament der Weihe in den Stufen des Bischofs, Priesters und Diakons ist dafür nicht notwendig und nicht möglich, wie es sich aus diversen Studien auch der Glaubenskongregation ergibt.


TOPICS: Catholic; Theology
KEYWORDS: deaconesses

1 posted on 02/17/2017 5:25:12 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius

And, Cardinal Mueller, to which island paradise will he be relegated, pray tell? By midsummer, perhaps?


2 posted on 02/17/2017 8:48:48 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: Petrosius

**“not necessary and not possible”**

I like his attitude on this.


3 posted on 02/18/2017 8:59:19 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Petrosius

Bergoglio’s last two SinNods on Marriage and the family were also not necessary.


4 posted on 02/18/2017 7:08:30 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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