"Deaconesses": Pope establishes "Special Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women"

[For background on decision, see previous post.]

From the Holy See Press Office Bollettino:

On May 12, 2016, the Holy Father, in the course of the meeting -- in the format of dialogue in the Paul VI Hall -- with the participants at the Plenary Assembly of Superiors-General, expressed his intention of "establishing an official commission that can study the question" of the Diaconate of women, "especially regarding the first years of the Church".

After intense prayer and mature reflection, His Holiness has decided to institute the Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women, calling to take part in it the following:

President:

Abp. Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.I., Tit. Abp. of Tibica, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Members:

Sister Nuria Calduch-Benages, M.H.S.F.N., Member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission

Prof. Francesca Cocchini, Professor at Università «La Sapienza» and the «Augustinianum» Patristic Institute, Rome

Mons. Piero Coda, President of the University Institute «Sophia», in Loppiano, and Member of the International Theological Commission

Fr. Robert Dodaro, O.S.A., President of the «Augustinianum» Patristic Institute, Rome, and professor of Patristics

Fr. Santiago Madrigal Terrazas, S.I., Professor of Ecclesiology at the "Comillas" Pontifical University, Madrid

Sister Mary Melone, S.F.A., Rector of the Pontifical "Antonianum" University, Rome

Fr. Karl-Heinz Menke, Professor Emeritus of Dogmatic Theology at the University of Bonn and Member of the International Theological Commission

Fr. Aimable Musoni, S.D.B., Professor of Ecclesiology at the Pontifical Salesian University, Rome

Fr. Bernard Pottier, S.I., Professor at the «Institut d'Etudes Théologiques», Brussels, and Member of the International Theological Commission

Prof. Marianne Schlosser, Professor of Spiritual THeology at the University of Vienna and Member of the International Theological Commission

Prof. Michelina Tenace, Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome

Prof. Phyllis Zagano, Professor at «Hofstra University», Hempstead, New York

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Let us never forget to whom the merit belongs: if "deaconesses" are ever "ordained", we must do justice and call it The Vangheluwe Reform, in honor of confessed nephew-molester Bp. Roger Vangheluwe, who led the charge in favor of this move.