The women meet all the requirements except one: they're not men. As deacons, they could preach at Mass and preside over baptisms, weddings and funerals.

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A commission set up by Pope Francis to study women deacons has voted against the possibility of ordaining women deacons while ...

The verdict against women deacons is the body of Christ trying to move forward into history with one foot tethered to a ...