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Women ceased to function as deacons in the West in the 13th century. [61] In the past century, K. K. Fitzgerald, Phyllis Zagano, and Gary Macy have argued for the sacramental ordination of women as deacons. Jean Daniélou wrote in favor of the ordained female diaconate in a 1960 article in La Maison-Dieu. [62]
Some provinces within the Anglican Communion, such as the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, ordain women to the three traditional holy orders of bishop, priest and deacon. Other provinces ordain women as deacons and priests but not as bishops; others still as deacons only; and seven provinces do not approve the ...
The global Catholic Church is split on whether to allow women to serve as deacons, a Vatican document showed on Tuesday, just weeks after Pope Francis ruled out any opening on the issue. Giving ...
Advocates for greater roles for women in the Church had hoped the synod might call for women to serve as deacons. Vatican summit praises women's leadership, but stops short on women clergy Skip to ...
Other provinces ordain women as deacons and priests but not as bishops; others are still as deacons only. The Anglican Church of Australia General Synod legislated that women could be ordained as deacons (1985) [ 1 ] and priests (1992) [ 2 ] and the Appellate Tribunal agreed to bishops (2007) [ 3 ] but left the decision to ordain women to those ...
If before the synod the idea of allowing women to be deacons was a fringe proposal pushed by Western progressives, the idea gained attention during the debate. It became something of a litmus test of how far the church was going to go, or not, to address demands of women for greater equality and representation in the church's highest ranks.
The results of the two commissions have never been released and in a recent interview with CBS “60 Minutes,” Francis said “no” when asked if women could one day be ordained deacons. Women ...
Francis, 87, has already created two previous Vatican commissions to consider ordaining women as deacons, but has not moved forward on it. The issue is one of 10 subjects that he removed from the ...