Posted on 02/24/2017 7:08:03 PM PST by marshmallow
President of Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, thinks a women's diaconate could happen.
According to the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the diaconate for women is a possibility.
Asked in a long interview for the German Church’s website katholisch.de on 24 February, what possibilities he saw for women in the Catholic Church, Ravasi replied, “The diaconate for women would, I think, be possible but it must of course, be discussed, as the historic tradition is very complex.”
He thought the present fixation on women’s ordination somewhat “clerical”, he said. “Why don’t we start talking about women taking on other most important functions in the Church such as women administering parishes, directing church finances or architectural planning?”
Asked how women were faring in the Vatican, Ravasi recalled that in his Permanent Women’s Consultation Group in the Council for Culture he had 35 women of very different backgrounds as advisers. “Among them there is a university professor, a mother, two Muslims, a Jewess, a non-believer, women from the fashion world and women journalists.”
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That wouldn't even be a change, would it?
Of course possible. The majority of the RCC goes along with it leaving the remnant alone adhering to the true faith of the ages and fulfilling the prophecy of Pope BVXI “the Church will be smaller but more vibrant”.
So be it.
Ravasi! Foe of McDonald’s and Starbucks. No longer FOF.
Romans 16:1 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, who is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
2That you receive her in the Lord, as becomes saints, and that you assist her in whatever business she has need of you: for she has been a helper of many, and of myself also.
A woman deacon is not possible unless she has transitioned.
A woman may become a deaconess.
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