Why not women deacons?
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Whether or not one accepts them, none of the arguments typically used to debar women from the priesthood applies to the diaconate.
The priest’s acting in persona Christi during the Mass is not relevant, as deacons do not consecrate the Eucharist. Neither is Christ having chosen 12 male apostles, since Acts 6 makes it clear that the first people called to diaconal service fulfilled a separate and complementary ministry to that of the Twelve.
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