Posted on 08/02/2016 6:14:03 AM PDT by marshmallow
Following up on comments made in May, Pope Francis has instituted a 12-member commission to study women and the diaconate.
Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer, SJ, the secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, will serve as the commission’s president.
Among the members of the commission are Father Robert Dodaro, president of the Patristic Institute Augustinianum; Sister Mary Melone, rector of the Pontifical University Antonianum; and Phyllis Zagano, a National Catholic Reporter columnist and author of several books on women and the diaconate.
Istituzione della Commissione di Studio sul Diaconato delle donne (Holy See Press Office)
Take the proclamations of the site you linked to with several pounds of salt. It is a very, very, very Western site run by converts from protestantism. The article in question is simply wrong and out of date. I also note that most of it is lifted from a college paper written by another convert from protestantism!
As for the office being essentially non-existent, that is likewise simply wrong. As I said earlier, I’ve met one; There is a deaconess in the monastery outside my maternal village down in Greece (I have never met her but I have seen her at vespers at the monastery). I have a cousin who is a nun at that monastery and she speaks highly of her.
I am not suggesting for a moment that you folks should have deaconesses. It is 100% your call. If what you get is what we have, I assure you it’s not a problem, but given the culture of the Latin Church and Western society, that may well not be possible.
Gotta have a pro-abort in there. (Zagano writes for the Fishwrap.)
Because they are almost entirely pro-abortion and pro-sodomy. Male prostitutes make a decent living from Jesuits. In the New England Province, a group of them used to fly on a never-ending circuit to the Jesuit scools. Don’t know whether or not this has ended.
I heard a report on WMAL radio (from Wash DC) that Pope Francis categorically denied that he was approving female deacons as some of the MSM was reporting. He emphasized he had only authorized a commission to study the issue.
Deaconesses are thin on the ground. There's a few in Bulgaria and Romania but that's about it. They have no liturgical function so we're talking apples and oranges here. The commission under discussion isn't about whether the Catholic Church will approve female odd-job assistants at monasteries. It's far wider in scope and its focus will undoubtedly be liturgical.
“Are “converts from protestantism” some sort of lower caste in the Orthodox Church? Unreliable? Not to be trusted? Over zealous?”
Some, yes; in fact, many are though not all. Some of the worst are from liberal protestantism, or in point of fact Latin Catholicism, who convert because of their former group or church’s political positions.
There are, as I have pointed out, diaconesses in Greece. In fact, the Church of Greece approved the official, church-wide reestablishment of the order in 2004, I believe; but not in any liturgical role.
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