Commonweal: Lost Generations
The latest decision on women deacons won’t help stop the exodus of young women from the Church
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Others were not so positive. The Women’s Ordination Conference was “appalled by the Vatican’s refusal to open its doors to women, even a crack,” it said in a statement. “Make no mistake: this is a decision that will harm the global church.” Phyllis Zagano, who served on Pope Francis’s first women-deacons commission, said the document “further damages the world’s picture of the Catholic Church, already tarnished by pederasty scandals and reports of financial mismanagement.” She also said it reeks of clericalism and called it an “ecumenical misstep” (because the Orthodox Church has women deacons).