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Dovekin
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Thank you for posting the link to the ITC report. I was just going to go look for it because of its penultimate paragraph:
If the Church had already pronounced authoritatively on the ordination of women as deacons, there would be no need to discern. Ordinatio Sacerdotalis pronounced authoritatively on priestly ordination, but ordination to the diaconate was not included in that, at least in the opinion of the International Theological Commission.In the light of these elements which have been set out in the present historico-theological research document, it pertains to the ministry of discernment which the Lord established in his Church to pronounce authoritatively on this question. From the Diakonia of Christ to the Diakonia of the Apostles