An Archbishop "Strongly Desires" Deaconesses
The Archbishop of Algiers, french-born Monsignor Jean-Paul Vesco OP, 62, wants deaconesses, he told the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano (2 March): "I very much want it to happen!" "It seems …More
The Archbishop of Algiers, french-born Monsignor Jean-Paul Vesco OP, 62, wants deaconesses, he told the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano (2 March): "I very much want it to happen!"
"It seems impossible to me to deprive the faithful, and therefore myself, of the female reception of the Word of God [as if ordinary women couldn't 'receive the Word of God']. None of the arguments put forward have ever convinced me" [because I, Vesco, have fallen away from the Catholic faith].
Because he doesn't want to understand, Monsignor Vesco finds it "difficult" to understand the objections against women's ordination.
He accuses the Church of having "a problem with women for centuries", when in fact Vesco has a problem with the Catholic Faith. Vesco fears that it is in danger of becoming "an obsolete Church, not timeless, but anachronistic and old-fashioned in its organisation", when in reality the Novus Ordo Church is putting itself on the sidelines by becoming a branch of the local newspaper, …More
"It seems impossible to me to deprive the faithful, and therefore myself, of the female reception of the Word of God [as if ordinary women couldn't 'receive the Word of God']. None of the arguments put forward have ever convinced me" [because I, Vesco, have fallen away from the Catholic faith].
Because he doesn't want to understand, Monsignor Vesco finds it "difficult" to understand the objections against women's ordination.
He accuses the Church of having "a problem with women for centuries", when in fact Vesco has a problem with the Catholic Faith. Vesco fears that it is in danger of becoming "an obsolete Church, not timeless, but anachronistic and old-fashioned in its organisation", when in reality the Novus Ordo Church is putting itself on the sidelines by becoming a branch of the local newspaper, …More
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Has anyone stopped to think about "WHY" do we need permanent deacons (or deaconesses) at all?! In many dioceses every year they have a new group of married men in formation for the 'diaconate as it was in the early Church' but I've rarely encountered any in my travels to different parishes throughout the country. They're harder to find than priests - who seem to do most of the ministry in the Church …More
Has anyone stopped to think about "WHY" do we need permanent deacons (or deaconesses) at all?! In many dioceses every year they have a new group of married men in formation for the 'diaconate as it was in the early Church' but I've rarely encountered any in my travels to different parishes throughout the country. They're harder to find than priests - who seem to do most of the ministry in the Church. What exactly is their purpose? What is the need? Why does this have to be allowed for women? I fear it's to de-clericalize the Church. I've even heard people call permanent deacons [not the transitional ones on their way to Holy Priesthood] lay deacons - an oxymoron since they are ordained!
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Exactly. The whole purpose is to eliminate the priesthood and replace it with the lay person. This is why "Extraordinary Ministers" and communion in hand came about as well. To desensitize Catholics for future changes. The reasons they tell us and the true motive behind things are two different issues.
Ivan Tomas
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I hope st. Catharina of Siena visit him in his dreams! 
Vesco has so much to learn from the 'Constant Teaching of the Catholic Church" of nearly 2000 years.... which nurtured thousands of profoundly Holy Saints & Martyrs....but this excuse for an archbishop would prefer to learn from the "protestant churches' which apostatised from the True and Only Faith given to us by Jesus Christ Himself......GIMME A BREAK!!!!!
Jeffrey Ade
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@Tony M Spot on!