Two diocesan bishops – Limerick and Kildare & Leighlin – indicated recently that they intend to proceed with asking lay men (only) to consider becoming deacons.
Theologian Angela Hanley spoke about the diaconate ministry, which was open to women, and its history to Monica Morley on Midwest Radio on Sun 3rd Oct 2021.
Ahead of today’s AGM…a request to re-publish this issue on today’s page. Below is a copy of the letter sent by the ACP Leadership team to each of the bishops…
Who cares for the carers? Avoid the mirror: I had to check on the Facebook video of last weekend’s Mass. Edinburgh had some technical hitch. (Not that I know anything…
SPRINGTIME: One of our schools (St Malachy’s) comes across for Mass on the First Fridays. It is both surprising and lovely to have them. (At their request). Today (1st March)…
The German diocese of Osnabrück has prepared a special Women Preaching event (13-17 September 2020). The diocese has prepared a series of videos to help prepare women to preach. The…
We have decided to put this letter on the website, since it gives a context and explains our Press Statement; and members have been asking us for it.
Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven & Saint Nicholas, Galway Homily On the cover of your booklets, you will see that we have gathered here this afternoon for my…
Angela Hanley on the diaconate.
Plus ça change,plus c’est la même chose… Nothing learnt from the Killaloe diocese experience 7 years ago.
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/3981/killaloe-women-want-diaconate-funds-diverted-to-laity.
Never mind all the talk about a listening church and walking together, this is what patriarchy looks like.
I agree with all you said Angela. As for the diaconate as presently structured I fail to understand how any man can join a set-up that is patriarchal and misogynistic. Is it true that married men who join promise not to remarry if their wife dies?
Angela Hanley on deacons…:
Yes Phil, it is true that married deacons promise in a document signed before ordination not to re-marry should their wife die.
Angela Hanley on the diaconate.
Further to Phil#2 and John#3
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/widowed-deacon-remarries-gets-laicized
Angela Hanley on Deacons…
The creepiness of the church’s attitude to love and to women emerges here in a peculiarly insidious and irritant way.
Today I discovered that a good Danish friend of mine is a direct descendant of Martin Luther.
‘If there had been no Reformation, I would not exist,’ he wryly remarks.
Angela Hanley on the history of the diaconate ministry.
John@4 and Soline @5, what can you say but ” OH my God !!.
Totally embarrassing!