deaconate in a sentence

1. Too much energy was dedicated to internal Church problems, especially the viri probati and female deaconate.

2. After completing their studies in Lebanon, they returned to Iraq for their deaconate ordination, which took place March 19.

3. While he was serving in his "deaconate" responsibilities, he also began to preach the gospel - and this with signs following.

4. Salmerón received only the ordinations up to the deaconate, because he had in June not yet completed the twenty second year of his life.

5. But because Pope John Paul II's declaration only implied the deaconate without specifically mentioning it, the women's ordination movement feels free to continue to push their agenda.

6. The issues of the “viri probati” and female deaconate, which did not generate any broad agreement, used up a lot of time to the detriment of other topics over which there was agreement.

7. At my church in Pittsburgh, among petitions for the parishioners to pray for faithful marriages and a dedicated deaconate, there is a part where we pray for folks to lead an “exemplary single life.”

8. Some optimists (I would call them naive) claim that the Synod merely wants to open a few exceptions, like ordaining married men and accepting women to the deaconate, within a very restricted region, i.e. the Amazon, for very specific pastoral needs.

9. 3) The theory that women have to receive access to ordained ministries at least to the deaconate, an aspiration which is favored by the wide spread practice of female acolytes and lectors, a practice not at least indicated by the documents of Vatican II.

10. With regard to the question of the female deaconate, Cardinal Müller makes it clear that there cannot be a sacramental female deaconate and that Pope Francis established his study commission merely in order to find out more ways of participation in the Church for women.