Francis: NO WOMEN DEACONS

[Michie]

I suppose this throws a spanner into the spanners (like theology, history, common sense…) already in the gears.

From CNA:

Pope Francis on women deacons: ‘Holy orders is reserved for men’
Pope Francis reaffirmed the impossibility of women becoming priests, or even modern Church deacons, in an interview for a book released Tuesday in Italy.
The question of whether some women in the early Church were “deaconesses” or another kind of collaborator with the bishops is “not irrelevant, because holy orders is reserved for men,” the pope said. [As anyone who is familiar with Vatican II’s Lumen gentium can affirm.]
The pope’s answers to questions about women’s roles in the Church were included in a book published in June in Spanish as “El Pastor: Desafíos, razones y reflexiones sobre su pontificado.” [WHOA… wait a just a cotton pickin’ minute. Last JUNE?!? And yet the “Walking Together” was discussing this? What else did they waste their time on. No… please don’t answer. It’s rhetorical.]
The book, whose title means in English “The Shepherd: Struggles, Reasons, and Thoughts on His Papacy,” was released in Italian on Oct. 24. The Italian edition is titled “Non Sei Solo: Sfide, Risposte, Speranze,” or “You Are Not Alone: Challenges, Answers, Hopes.”

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Francis: NO WOMEN DEACONS

I suppose this throws a spanner into the spanners (like theology, history, common sense...) already in the gears. From CNA: Pope Francis on women deacons: ‘Holy orders is reserved for men’ Pope Francis reaffirmed the impossibility of women becoming priests, or even modern Church deacons, in a

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[Michie]

He said he formed commissions in 2016 and 2020 to study the question further, after a study in the 1980s by the International Theological Commission established that the role of deaconesses in the early Church “was comparable to the benedictions of abbesses.” [We have a modern word for what ancient deaconesses were: nun.]

Yep. that’s what I always thought.

 

[RileyG]

Good.

 

[Michie]

Yay nuns!