According to a preeminent U.S. expert on women deacons, all a Bishop has to do to ordain a woman to the permanent diaconate is petition Rome for a special canonical permission. In an extensive interview in the January 3 issue of U.S. Catholic, Dr. Phyllis Zagano comments: “All a bishop has to do is ask for derogation from the law, as recommended in a 1995 document of the Canon Law Society of America, which parsed how it could happen. You need derogation from the law to install a woman as an acolyte, derogation from the law to install a woman as a lector, and derogation from the law to ordain a woman as a deacon. I think that bishops could ask for a regional permission … or even a sub-regional permission.” CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING TO READ ALL OF THE ARTICLE:
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