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Joe Crotty
Layman, Volunteer with Brother Benno Foundation, Oceanside CA.
April 11, 2023

Discerning Deacons give hope to the Church. Ordained women are critical and necessary. Lay women and Nuns already do the work of deacons throughout the world. Official Church sanctioning (ordination) would only confirm what is already happening.

Fifty percent of the Church's voices go unheard from the pulpit. This frustrates the work of the Holy Spirit. The Church is under-served because of it.

In 2019, I wrote a letter to every Bishop in the United States referencing the need for the ordination of women. There was no response. Now, through Discerning Deacons, there is serious momentum.

A couple years ago I heard about Casey and Ellie of Discerning Deacons Apostolate and Community and have been a participant of their Zoom meetings ever since. 

Witness
“I know that women are being called by the Holy Spirit and women are living diakonia in creative, ordinary ways today. Now, as a mother of a toddler girl, I want to discern with the Church on how to make way for her to discern her own future calling, should the Spirit call her.”
Ana López
Spiritual Director and Theology Teacher, Los Angeles, CA
Witness
“If women were able to serve as deacons, it would magnify the grace and love of God and make it more widely available.”
Judith Oberhauser
Retired Chaplain, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN
Witness
“I was not raised Catholic but converted in my adult life. As a child, Mother Mary would appear to me often…I believe Mary appearing to me as a child who knew nothing about the Catholic Church was more than her wanting me to find Christ through the Church. I believe she came to me because I was meant to do more for the Church.”
Christina Kovar
Adult Faith Formation Leader, Chicago, IL

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