Posted on 11/20/2025 10:35:57 AM PST by ebb tide
The Synod's general secretary has prepared a document on a 'female diaconate', for which the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will be responsible for drafting the final report.
ElWanderer.com wrote on 19 November that this is an "imminent danger" because of Tucho’s track record of never missing an opportunity to cause serious problems for the Church.
In Catholicism, Holy Orders in the three forms deacon, priest and bishop are reserved for men for ontological reasons.
ElWanderer speculates that Tucho will resort to the tactic he applied in Fiducia Supplicans, which he likely considers 'brilliant': a non-liturgical blessing for each of the lovers, but not for the couple.
Regarding female deacons, Tucho could argue that the female diaconate does not belong to the sacrament of Holy Orders, but is ministerial. Therefore, women can receive it, as Pope Francis claimed in 2021.
Receiving a 'diaconate' would be an upgrade for women, as it would be a step up from the acolyte.
They could wear an alb and a strip of fabric in the relevant liturgical colour, similar to a stole, but not a stole; women could wear this like a shawl or scarf. In other words, yes and no — it would cause confusion, chaos and further division.
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Who didn’t see this coming when they started with having women distribute Communion?
Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.
First he forbade them:
18. There are, of course, various roles that women can perform in the liturgical assembly: these include reading the Word of God and proclaiming the intentions of the Prayer of the Faithful. Women are not, however, permitted to act as altar servers.
Yet, in 1992, the same pope reversed his ruling:
Subsequently, at an Audience granted on 11 July 1992 to the Most Reverend Vincenzo Fagiolo, Archbishop Emeritus of Chieti-Vasto and President of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts, Pope John Paul II confirmed the decision (to allow altar girls) and ordered its promulgation. This will be done in the near future.
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