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    Female Deacons in the Catholic Church? Possible future.

    Pope Francis said the Vatican should study the possibility of ordaining women as deacons, answering a call that women, particularly in the United States, have been asking the church to address for decades.


    So apparently Pope Francis is in favor of having the Vatican investigate early female Church leaders. Possibly as a prelude to opening up Deacon positions to women. Deacons don't carry all the roles of a full priest but they do carry a number of them and this would be an interesting step by the Church to take. Also less likely to have a massive number of clerics start subscribing to the "Empty Seater" ideology than going straight for full induction to the clergy.
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    I'm up for it. My inner penis genital or your outer clitoris doesn't alter our ability to worship questionable ideas. Good for the Pope.
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      It'd be a fun shift to see. Though we're in for a wait no matter what. Right now he seems to be playing with the idea of having an investigative commission set up. There's a decent distance between him playing with the idea and an investigative commission giving back a report that leads to him opening up deacon positions. Still small steps are better than no steps and this one is long overdue.
      life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

      Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

      "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

      John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

      "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

      Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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        Re: Female Deacons in the Catholic Church? Possible future.

        There have long been stories, rumors, innuendo, etc. about ancient Popes having removed parts of the Bible involving women in important roles. Who knows what hidden scrolls are buried somewhere, or were burned centuries ago? If an English king could produce an edited version of the Bible and have it take on major global significance, anything could happen. It's a paper and papyrus version of our other thread about the past/future/media/technology changing history.
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          I've come to the assumption women must be the baddasses of the universe for it's other half to be so frightened of it.

          Rock on mamajammas.

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            A bit late but the commission that Francis was considering in May seems to have been appointed

            Just Catholic: Pope Francis named just one woman from the Western Hemisphere to his commission on women deacons -- me.
            life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

            Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

            "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

            John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

            "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

            Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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              Re: Female Deacons in the Catholic Church? Possible future.

              I remember reading this a long time back,and it seems to be considered a myth by some.
              The Female Pope.


              and a trailer for a movie about the female Pope.
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