This promises to be a significant discussion.
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Phyllis Zagano, Ordination of Women to the Diaconate in the Eastern Churches – Part 2
“I have been asked to express my opinion about the possibility that the church, if it judges it appropriate, would be able to confer on women the sacrament of order in the diaconal grade.”
Read morePhyllis Zagano, Ordination of Women to the Diaconate in the Eastern Churches – Part 1
“The question of restoring women to the ordained diaconate surfaced during the Second Vatican Council and continued to resound in academic and pastoral circles well after Pope Paul VI restored the diaconate as a permanent state for the church in the West in 1967. The diaconate has continued uninterrupted in Eastern churches since apostolic times.”
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