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- Sue in soCal on ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 06 – Friday 1st Week of Advent: “Thank you for doing these, Fr. Z.”
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- on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “If we really want to reduce the non-sense, might I suggest a new canon dictating all homilies be given in…”
- on ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 07 – Saturday 1st Week of Advent: ““… *striking* theological insights.” Nice one, Father.”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1499: “Yes, they’ll keep pushing, but let’s not forget the promise Our Lord made to Saint Peter.”
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- on Daily Rome Shot 1499: “I still wonder what the goal of all this is. If one looks at the churches who have allowed females…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1499: “I don’t believe God will allow either of those to happen in the Church He founded. Were either of those…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1499: “Unfortunately that vocal minority will keep pushing until they win their two goals – ordination of women and Church acceptance…”
- on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: ““One of them insists that the ordination of the deacon is ” ad ministerium ,” not ” ad sacerdotium “”…”
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- on Daily Rome Shot 1499: “Synodality: Listening to a vocal minority of elite homosexual Germans hostile to the Catholic faith.”
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Tag Archives: diaconate
Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate
The issue of female diaconate has been effectively deep-sixed by the second commission set up by Francis. The first commission was historical and this one was more theological. The first said, there isn’t conclusive evidence of female diaconate (so… no!). … Read More
Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job
Three things in particular caught my eye this morning. Two of them are connected with each other and they ring of good common sense and faith. The other clanks of delusional blather. First, at LifeSite we read finally the news made … Read More
Posted in Deaconettes, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged converts, deaconettes, diaconate, Holy Orders
11 Comments
11 Comments
ASK FATHER: If women can’t be priests, can they be deacons?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I know women can’t become priests, but…can they become deacons? The thought never entered my mind before, but upon gathering some resources for a friend who had asked why women cannot become priests, I found a video … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Deaconettes
Tagged deaconettes, deacons, diaconate, female deacons
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17 Comments
ASK FATHER: Can deacons use the Rituale Romanum to bless things?
From a deacon…. QUAERITUR: Is it your opinion that a deacon can use most of the blessings contained in the older form of the Ritual? I took this for granted during formation for diaconal ordination, and totally dismissed the Book … Read More
Liberal Ass. of U.S. Catholic Priests is now pushing for the ordination of women
I read at Church Militant that the renegade, liberal Ass. of U.S. Catholic Priests is now pushing for the ordination of women, first to the diaconate. This is not going to happen, but the confusion sown by such support warrants … Read More
Posted in Deaconettes
Tagged Ass. of Catholic Priests, deaconettes, diaconate, ordination of women
8 Comments
8 Comments
ASK FATHER: If traditional Catholics and converts will eventually merge, where does that leave people who want the Novus Ordo?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I’m in formation for ordination to the NO diaconate in three years, Lord willing. I’ve been to one TLM mass in Florida years ago. My question concerns us faithful NO Catholics. When you say that the … Read More
Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) on the YACOD (aka YET ANOTHER Commission on Deaconettes)
The Fishwrap has an article replete with wailing and hand ringing. In a nut shell (a pretty good description of what’s inside the wrap that is that publication) they lament that there are members of YET ANOTHER Commission on women … Read More
Posted in Deaconettes, Lighter fare
Tagged deaconesses, deaconettes, diaconate, ordination of women
10 Comments
10 Comments
ASK FATHER: Deacons in the Novus Ordo
From a diaconal reader… QUAERITUR: I have begun serving Solemn High Masses, at local parishes near my assignment for a couple of years now. The experience of serving at the Latin Mass has enriched my diaconal ministry in ways that … Read More
Amazon Synod and deaconettes?
You know that the issue of deaconettes is going to be raised at the Synod (“walking together”) on the Amazon. The former Prefect of the CDF, Gerhard Card. Müller responded to something a wacky S. American suggested, namely, that the … Read More
Posted in Deaconettes, The Coming Storm, The Drill
Tagged deaconesses, deaconettes, diaconate, Gerhard Ludwig Müller
22 Comments
22 Comments
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