[Ol' Sox]

Excellent idea. Women following the example of Phoebe and Dorcas, de facto deaconesses of the early church, would be a great addition to the permanent diaconate. In reality, if not clerical title, many women already fill that role.

[ohioman]

This pope is an apostate.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's just more clericalism: as if women's ministries, which are many and important TODAY, don't count unless they have a clerical title.

This would go a long way towards futhering this hugely unhealthy trend of laicizing the clergy, and clericalizing the laity.