Pope: "We here in the Vatican love women, but we just don't want them to ru(i)n things, like funerals. Just as we love gay people but not their sin/ gayness, we love women but not their femininity. We have to keep to Jesus's words and Jesus wanted a sausage party to be in charge of everything."
Quote:Vatican commission says 'no' to women as Catholic deacons
A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church's practice of all-male clergy, according to a report given to Pope Leo and released on Thursday.
The commission, in a 7-1 vote, said historical research and theological investigation "excludes the possibility" of allowing women to serve as deacons.
Catholic deacons can baptize people, witness marriages and preside at funerals, among other duties. In some areas of the world they can also lead parishes in the absence of a priest, but a priest must still celebrate the Mass.
The role, for centuries considered only a stepping stone to the priesthood, was reenvisioned as a permanent post for married Catholic men after a series of reforms by the Church in the 1960s.
Some women have said they believe God is asking them to take on the post, which is understood by the Church as a role of service.
The panel, led by a cardinal and a priest from the Vatican's top doctrinal office, included men and women church scholars. They said in the report that their assessment against women deacons was strong.
The Women's Ordination Conference, a U.S.-based group, criticized the commission for not soliciting input from more women in its discussions and called the decision a "deep, and theologically unsound, insult".
Pope John Paul II reaffirmed the ban on women serving as priests in 1994, but did not specifically address the issue of women deacons.
Advocates point to evidence that women served as deacons in the early centuries of the Church. One woman, Phoebe, is mentioned as a deacon in one of the letters of the apostle St. Paul.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/vat...025-12-04/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
