Women Deacons for the Catholic Church?

Interesting piece in HuffPo about the possibility of female deacons in the Catholic church.

Jesus’ Apostles established the order of deacons mainly to carry out the charitable mission of the church. In the Catholic tradition, the role was eventually subsumed into the priesthood, until the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s revived it as an ordained order open to “mature married men” over 35. (Deacons can also wear a clerical collar, which sometimes leads them to be taken for priests.) The restoration of the diaconate quickly raised the question of whether women could also become deacons, since a woman named Phoebe is called a deacon in the New Testament Book of Romans.