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On women deacons, the Catholic Church has to remember its own history

Phyllis Zagano


Winston Churchill famously said, "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." If the Catholic Church forgets history, it is simply doomed.

Pope Francis recently issued a letter "On the Renewal of the Study of the History of the Church." No matter: Francis himself seems to have forgotten the history of women ordained as deacons.


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