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Women deacons in Ireland?
http://ncronline.org/blogs/just-catholic/women-deacons-irelandThe good news: Kilmore, Ireland, Bishop Leo O'Reilly wants the Irish bishops' conference to study women deacons. The bad news: The news reports misrepresent the latest Vatican statement on women deacons.
Whatever will we do about the folks who fall down in a dead faint whenever you say "woman" and "ordination" in the same sentence?
To begin: A Catholic News Service article by Irish Catholic editor Michael Kelly changes facts. Kelly says it's a dead idea: No women deacons. He writes: "The permanent diaconate belongs to the sacrament of orders, which the church believes is limited to men alone."
Correction: The church teaches that priestly ordination is reserved to men alone. There is no magisterial statement about women as deacons.
