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Via Fr. Z:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has questioned the notion that a special office could be created for women deacons.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Archbishop Gerhard M\u00fcller said that in order to create a specific, non-sacramental office for women deacons, it would be necessary to prove that such an office was necessary. He was responding to a proposal by Cardinal Walter Kasper to create a specific deacon\u2019s office for women an expression of the common priesthood of all the faithful.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that women were already doing charitable and catechetical work besides being pastoral assistants and recalled that, according to Church teaching, only men could validly be ordained as deacons.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne would have to prove that a specific, non-sacramental ministry for women analogous to that of women deacons in the Early Church was necessary today,\u201d M\u00fcller concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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