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.
“Either we stop it or it stops us.” COP26: The two young lassies were noisy. Vinisha Umashankar and Greta Thunberg. Vinisha said: “We’ll build the future, even if you are…
Dublin diocese website carried the Homily notes of Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin on the occasion of the canonisation of John Henry Newman.
“A Catholicism of self-defined certainties will lead eventually to a doubt about all certainties and thus to emptiness. A Catholicism of self-defined certainties and self-importance led to an authoritarian and harsh Irish Catholicism, with consequences we know only too well.”
“I am astonished at the content and tone of daily messages on social media by Catholic pundits on the left and the right that are anything but kindly. There are those who spend all day attacking and responding and feeling that in this they are defending the integrity of Church teaching. The kindly light will never be defended by nastiness and bitterness.”
Tue 9th Jan – Homelessness One of the speakers at our Annual pilgrimage in Our Lady’s Island a few seasons back was Fr Peter Mc Verry, the founder of the…
There is much good news in today’s Gospel. We’re told we can bring all our troubles to Jesus and find rest. God will make our burden light. We praise God…
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Fr Mychal Judge, the first recorded casualty of 9/11 Early in September, New York City Chris McDonnell CT September 11 2020 It was a clear, blue-skied September Tuesday morning in…
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!