Posted on 02/21/2024 4:49:36 PM PST by ebb tide
San Diego’s Cardinal Robert McElroy has revealed that participants of the Synod on Synodality discussed ending the so-called “transitional diaconate” in order to more easily accommodate having “female deacons.”
Addressing the annual Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ Religious Education Congress last week, McElroy renewed his previous calls for the promotion of women to the diaconate. His talk – only segments of which have appeared in the media – included fleeting details about the content of the discussions at the October 2023 session of the Synod on Synodality, along with a criticism of Catholics who have voiced concern about Fiducia Supplicans.
McElroy echoed the phrase used by Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich after the Synod meeting, attesting that there was a common opinion amongst the Synod members that it was time for a “paradigm shift” on the role of women in the Church. Crux paraphrased McElroy as saying about the Synod discussions that “it was the sense that the time has come for a ‘paradigm shift’ with regard to the inclusion of women in the Church.”
He reported existence of a “full-bodied” discussion on the “female diaconate” that took place in October at the month-long Vatican event.
Paraphrasing the cardinal once again, Crux wrote McElroy said that the discussion included “perhaps ending the transitional diaconate, meaning ordination as a deacon as the final step before priesthood.”
According to the report, McElroy argued that divorcing the diaconate and the priesthood “could make it easier to have women deacons [sic].”
LifeSiteNews has requested the full transcript of McElroy’s text from the Diocese of San Diego, but has not received a reply.
It was VC II that introduced the novelty of "permanent deacons". Now the modernists are arguing to abolish the the transitional diaconate in order to justify womyn deacons.
It was JP II who, back in 1983, approved "altar girls" for the first time in church history. Womyn deacons are a natural progression in the "concilar church". Full fledged womyn priests is the ultimate goal in Frankenchurch.
Ping
More squishy, watered down religion and more leftism and corruption to follow.
A peculiar choice of words from a peculiar man. The "inclusion of women" in the Church would be redundant. Among the laity who attend Mass--other than the Traditional Latin Mass, where the sexes seem to attend in even numbers--women are the overwhelming majority. This is with no female deacons. I'd have to infer that, as women, they like what they're getting.
Is the bishop hoping they can chase out these remaining women --and then sell the diocesan churches and to spend that money at gay resorts?
It sounds like Big Mac is floating the idea of a *non-ordained* diaconate. One wonders what sort of tasks such deacons would be assigned. Would they differ from what ordained deacons have been allowed to do? Could they preside at weddings and non-mass funerals? Do cemetery committals? If ordination isn’t a prerequisite for those tasks, then could any of us lay people do the same stuff?
"Permanent deacons" are ordained and have received the Sacrament of Holy Orders. So I fear they're actually floating the idea of ordaining women.
To my knowledge, there is no such thing as a “non-ordained” diaconate in the Catholic Church.
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