Posted on 01/18/2019 5:46:42 PM PST by marshmallow
NEW YORK - Members of Pope Francis’s study commission on women deacons spoke publicly for the first time Tuesday, saying the pope has their report and expressing confidence that when the moment comes, he’ll make the right call.
“He will know the time to say something,” said Phyllis Zagano, a senior research associate-in-residence and adjunct professor of religion at Hofstra University, who served on the commission.
In the meantime, Zagano suggested that rank and file Catholics also have a role to play in the discussions around the subject.
“It’s up to the Church to make noise,” she said, while also warning that “to delay a positive answer” on whether women can serve as deacons “is a negative answer.”
Zagano’s remarks came during a panel discussion on “The Future of Women Deacons: Views from the Papal Commission and the American Pews,” at Fordham University’s Center for Religion and Culture and live streamed by Salt and Light Media.
Panelists included commission members Zagano and Jesuit Father Bernard Pottier, a faculty member at the Institute D’Etudes Théologiques in Brussels, along with Sister Donna Ciangio, O.P., chancellor of the archdiocese of Newark and principal and founder of Church Leadership Consultation. Father Thomas Rosica, CEO of Salt and Light and a long-time consultant to the Holy See Press Office, moderated the event.
The commission, which was established in August 2016 and consisted of twelve members - six women and six men - and was headed by then-archbishop, now Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria, has “turned in a report and the Holy Father has it,” Zagano said.
Their mandate was to take up the historical question as to whether there were, in fact, women deacons in the early Church.
“I have no promises for you,” she said, adding that commission members were limited as to what they......
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If he allows female deacons then a obvious question would be — Pope Francis — do you support having a female Pope?
Ping
The signpost up ahead: Schism any day now.
Anyone at this point still think Vatican II wasn’t a huge mistake?
1 Timothy 2:12 - But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
1 Corinthians 14:34 - Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
1 Corinthians 11:3 - But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman [is] the man; and the head of Christ [is] God.
Prayers up.
Will this include transvestite deacons?
This is evil’s attempt to open the floodgates. Will Francis hold the line? Hopefully he’ll do what he does best, obfuscate.
Women don't know it but there are elements on Frankie's team who are chomping at the bit to use women just like they were used to advance the abortion movement.
If this passes then we will be inundated with dyke deacons.
Bump
Satan is tied up right now working with San Fran Nan. As soon as he is free he’ll talk to Francis.
Deacons have Holy Orders. Priests have Holy Orders.
To my knowledge, women have never received Holy Orders.
It is similar to anyone chosen to be on the ticket with a presidential candidate must also be eligible to be president.
There aren’t enough men left in the CC. LOL
Won’t happen.
Let’s brace ourselves for the next time Francis is on an airplane.
He better NEVER!
If the Pope follows the Bible / New Testament which says women are to be silent in church, then there’s really nothing to think about. But then, he already doesn’t follow the Bible, so I guess he could go either way with his decision.
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