Phyllis Zagano
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Award-winning author and scholar specializing in Catholic women's ministry past and present, especially the ancient tradition of women deacons.
Long Island, New York, USA
Joined February 2011
Lots of conversation and little information: women are allowed to serve as lectors and acolytes since the new Code of Canon Law in 1983, but the interpretation in th 1990s did not say women could be formall installed as such, both of which are required for diaconal ordination.
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@MassimoFaggioli Are they kidding? Is it now the Marymount Business School and Athletic Complex?.
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Deacons are ordained and carry out some of the same duties as priests, such as preach at Mass and officiate at weddings. The issue will be discussed at Pope Francis' synod, or monthlong meeting, in Rome in October.
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Thursday, Sept 3, is the feast of St. Phoebe, Deacon (in the martyrology but not the Ordo). Through the intercession of St. Phoebe, we pray for the ministry of deacons, for the papal commission on the female diaconate, and for the Church to restore women to the diaconate.
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Dear God, We praise you for the witness of St. Stephen, patron saint of deacons. More than ever, your Church needs women and men to minister as St. Stephen did. Send your Spirit to guide Pope Francis' discernment of the return of women to the diaconate. Amen.
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Remember all the women deacons of history today, the Feast of St Phoebe, Deacon.
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Today is the feast of two deacons: 1) St Gregory the Great, who as a deacon was elected pope in the 7th century; 2) St Phoebe, who carried St Paul's Letter to the Romans and who he calls deacon (not deaconess). Pass it along.
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@FrMatthewLC @AlessandraH17 Sorry, incorrect St Paul introduces St Phoebe as a deacon of the Church and as such, she carried his letter to the Romans. Women were routinely ordained as deacons in the ancient Church, up to the 12th century, when only men destined for priesthood were ordained as deacons.
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It is appalling to see an organization that claims to be Catholic project pro-abortion messaging onto a structure that celebrates the conception of the Mother of God. via @americamag.
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Thought for the day: “The majority of bishops [at the Amazon Synod] were in favor of admitting women to the permanent diaconate…. My hope would be that they would find a pathway to make that a reality.”. BISHOP ROBERT W. MCELROY OF SAN DIEGO.
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+Pierre: "embarking on a new path involves growing pains. patience and discernment are necessary. a divided Church will never lead others to the unity desired by Christ.".
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Russian military needs to stage a coup. Putin has lost it. Just step up and say, "I relieve you, sir.".
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@RichRaho It is as simple as this: if the Synod does not ask for women to be ordained as deacons, it is denying their baptismal dignity and saying women cannot image Christ.
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During the audience, the women invited the pope to consider the full and equal participation of women in the church, including through preaching in parish settings and ordination as deacons. via @americamag.
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@ThomasReeseSJ @NCRonline @cwwhiteNCR How about ordaining women to the diaconate to increase access to minustry?.
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Your bishop is at the USCCB meeting. Be sure he knows he can install women as lectors and acolytes now! Here is the letter from the Dicastery for Divine Worship:
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@cwwhiteNCR To insult women is to hurt them. To say women cannot be ordained as deacons is violence, and supports more violence.
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@Cindy_Wooden The Church needs deacons who are mothers, too. The clerical caste is currently stuck in the pragmatism of clericalism.
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There is a place for apologetics, to be sure, but unless pastoral leaders distinguish apologetics from evangelization, we will continue to drive away five young people for every one we attract. via @NCRonline.
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'What old old ways need to be abandoned? And what new ways must be adopted in going forward? —Archbishop Christophe Pierre via @NCRonline.
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Elizabeth Johnson delivering inaugural lecture on theology and ecology at Fordham Lincoln Center.
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The only person in Scripture called “deacon” is named in Paul’s Letter to the Romans, where he addresses the deacon—the woman deacon—Phoebe. via @americamag.
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The Commemoration of Saint Phoebe is Sept 3 in the Roman Martyrology. In 1969, the Vatican moved Gregory I (of the "Mary Magdalen was a prostitute story") from March 12, to Sept 3. So there is no way to celebrate Phoebe and her role as deaccon (Romans 16:1-2) is never heard.
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@CardinalJWTobin Help the Church recognize the need to restore women to the ordained diaconate.
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@GDemacopoulos Women deacons are historically documented, doctrinally possible and pastorally necessary.
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Here is what one of Cardinal DiNardo's (Galveston-Houseton) seminarians thinks of women:
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Talking about restoring women to the diaconate need not be controversial—there is no need to whisper or look over our shoulders when we mention it. via @americamag.
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the problem quite probably was and is: no women involved in formation or evaluation.
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@JamesMartinSJ @CardinalDolan @WSJ @WSJopinion and women, whom officially cannot be or act "in persona Christi servi" --in the person of Christ the servant--as deacons.
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@americamag From the article: "But it’s not only about [making] everything about women deacons. There has to be another way in which we respect that women bring a particular gift. " (What about women imaging Christ?.
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@cwwhiteNCR The work has been done and the topic has been discussed for 50 years. The ITC found in favor of women deacons in 1997, but the president, Cardinal Ratzinger, refused to promulgate the findings.
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@jdflynn Historical fact: 37 deacons were elected as bishop of Rome and 36 were consecrated bishop and never ordained as priest.
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Through the intercession of St. Phoebe, we pray for the ministry of deacons, for the papal commission on the female diaconate, and for the Church to restore women to the ordained diaconate. Sept 3 is Feast of St. Phoebe.
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‘God may be calling us’: Meet the women aspiring to become deacons
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@dearmisskate @archedinburgh Ordaining women as deacons has nothing to do with "activity" and everything to do with women made in the omage and likeness of God, thereby able to be icons of Christ.
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@HeidiSchlumpf Allowing women to legally be near the sacred is more than a baby step. The 1983 Code allowed any lay person to temporarily fulfill the ministry of lector or acolyte, but it took many years for women to be included in "any lay person". This signifies "equal humanity.".
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women deacons.
New structure for the Church in the #Amazon points the way for reform. **Embeds a structure for discernment . **Builds on Vatican II. **Makes the periphery the centre . **Includes women, indigenous. Interview with @mauloco29 in @The_Tablet #AmazonSynod
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From this report: "Mescher recounted how when one survivor spoke with a bishop, describing sexual assault that began when she was 6 years old, "the bishop said, 'Well, you must've been pretty developed for a 6-year-old to catch the eye of a priest.'"
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@ThomasReeseSJ @Cindy_Wooden Maybe it is narcissistic clericalism that prevents restoring women to the ordained diaconate?.
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@austeni @JDLongGarcia The writer does not seem to understand the damage the alt-right media have done to the Church.
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Fact: Pope Gregory I started the rumor that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute in 591. In 1969 Gergory's Memorial was moved from March 12, to Sept 3, the feast of St Phoebe, the only person in Scripture called "deacon." St Phoebe is in the Roman Martyrology as a Commemoration.
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@holysmoke @stambrose Why is this guy so angry? St Ambrose U. created an event, and it was spectacular. This critic was not there, nor did he attend online, so how does he know anything about it?.
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@AlessandraH17 Because there us a pernicious rumor, believed and spread by misogynists, that women cannot image Christ, the risen Lord.
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"Most of the continental assemblies and the syntheses of several episcopal conferences call for the question of women’s inclusion in the diaconate." Synod document sets stage for wide-ranging debate on women via @NCRonline.
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@cwwhite212 @BishopBarron @NCRonline Barron has suggested "something like a mandatum for those who claim to teach the Catholic faith online, whereby a bishop affirms that the person is teaching within the full communion of the Church." ??? It is already in Canon Law and ignored by preist-bloggers and their bishops.
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Happy to have spoken to the Scottish Laity Network recently on synodality and women.
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Happy to be speaking about the Synod and women at the Jesuit parish of St Anthony, Oceanside, NY Saturday April 29 9.45 am-noon.
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The new commission on women deacons is meeting now. ICYMI:
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Comments from the uninformed echo chamber of the anti-Francis crowd:.George Weigel: Melancholy overshadows tenth anniversary of Francis’ pontificate via @catholic_weekly.
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So today, the Rome-educated associate pastor who preached that he dishonest steward showed how to make friends in business, said you only listen to 3 women: mother, grandmother, and the GPS lady.
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@MassimoFaggioli A married convert former Episcopal priest who apparently does not understand Catholic moral theology.
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@dianemontagna @GrechMario @EdwardPentin @Synod_va The Church is perfectly able to restore women to thecordained diaconate. Thr current impediment is a "merely ecclesiastical law" that can be changed. There is no Magisterial teaching against ordaining women as deacons.
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@mfjlewis Can. 906 Except for a just and reasonable cause, a priest is not to celebrate the eucharistic sacrifice without the participation of at least some member of the faithful.
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@JustinWelby @Pontifex Did you talk about the place of women in the Church, which is reflected by the status of women in Sudan and around the world?.
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@holysmoke @NCRonline 36 deacons were elected bishop of Rome between the 5th and 7th centuries and were never made priests, but were consecrated as bishops. This is well-known to historians, although it is no longer the practice.
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Pope Francis expands participation in synod to lay members, granting right to vote via @NCRonline.
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@KeyvanMartin Women are not going to Mass, and not bringing their husbands, children, or checkbooks.
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@jamestkeane @americamag The restoration of women to the ordained diaconate in the RC Church.
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@father_rmv This dated opinion article by Fr Scanlan is incorrect. There is significant documentation of the sacramental ordination of women as deacons, East and West.
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@austeni The blogger you cite has no priestly faculties, lives in an unknown location, and constantly promotes schism.
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Over the past eight years, a powerful U.S.-based media conglomerate has used its formidable wealth and power to turn a large portion of the people of God against Rome. via @americamag.
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'How do we govern ourselves democratically? How do we do so in a way in which division and bigotry are not the hallmarks of our discourse and our public action?'—Cardinal Robert McElroy, listing questions for via @NCRonline.
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@NCRegister Actually, there is no doctrine against the restoration of women to the ordained diaconate. The writers mentioned all depend on scant historical resources to prove a negative. The writer of the newspaper article is misinformed. In any event, history alone is not dispositive.
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@Chris_SmithsJ @ThomasReeseSJ @Cindy_Wooden The CNA article is based on a mistranslation and misunderstanding of Chapter 12 of a book, which repeats an interview of some 8 months ago. Pope Francis did not rule out the diaconate.
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@HeidiSchlumpf Many deacons were consecrated as bishops between the 5th and 7th centuries. "Priestly faculties" are a very late way of describing the abilities of certain clerics to celebrate Eucharist.
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@joshjmac The history of C. 1024 is rooted in priestly ordination, which equals "sacred ordination" which is not the term used for the diaconate. The diaconate is not part of priesthood.
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Violence against women includes saying women cannot image Christ.
Grace on the Margins: Pope Francis may want to condemn violence against women, but my own experience of domestic violence showed me that sometimes church teaching only makes things worse.
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