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The impossible synodal debate on ‘deaconesses’

Discussion of female deacons remains stuck on what they can never be, instead of what they could be

Ed. Condon
Apr 25, 2024
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A Vatican synod official raised again this week the possibility of female deacons being introduced into the Church in an interview with a German Catholic newspaper. 

In an interview with the German publication Die Tagespost, synod undersecretary Sr. Nathalie Becquart said that the intro…

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