Sentences with phrase «male diaconate»

In my judgment, the evidence to date indicates that deaconesses belonged to a women's order analogous to the male diaconate, carried out a ministry to women (in the congregation or in a monastic community), were ordained in rites similar but not identical to those for men (e.g., the typology in the prayers is either feminine or masculine), and were prohibited from the liturgical ministry at the altar entrusted to deacons.

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Secondly, she claims that the diaconate and presbyterate are «quite separate roles»: the diaconate does not involve the duty of governance, and the deacon does not act in the person of Christ, and so does not have to be male.

Since the diaconate is a grade or degree of Holy Orders (The Catechism of the Catholic Church [CCC], § 1554), the unity of the sacrament seems to require that its subject, who is the sacramental sign, be a baptized male.