tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post4764212743297618502..comments2024-02-28T04:48:59.561+08:00Comments on The Pinoy Catholic: Former womynpriest supporter restored back to the ChurchPedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-61926559230737360782011-03-31T21:42:38.876+08:002011-03-31T21:42:38.876+08:00re: Women's priestly ordination. The Orthodox ...re: Women's priestly ordination. The Orthodox have a better way to say it that we Catholics can.<br /><br />It has never been done, it won't be done and it cannot be done. If it could be done, then it should have been done!<br /><br />However the Church still has authority to confer diaconal ordination on women. The problem is that this tradition died out and we aren't sure about for what ends the women were ordained. Were they ordained to be sacramental deacons at the altar or ministers of service and charity as deaconesses? The Church, Orthodox and Roman Catholic is studying the whole issue.<br /><br />Dr Coon was ordained as a deacon but this was done by a woman "bishop"! In ancient tradition a male bishop in apostolic succession ordained women as deacons. The Greek Orthodox Church has revived the order of women deacons but only for monastic women. But they are ordained as deaconesses and don't serve at the altar. They are roughly analogous to EMHCs in the Roman ChurchBen Vallejohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02963290696331676531noreply@blogger.com