Sharing the fruits from our season of listening

“A Church that teaches must be firstly a Church that listens.” Papa Francisco

Discerning Deacons has responded to Pope Francis’ call for a synodal church. During the summer of 2021, more than 1,500 Catholics from Canada, India and the United States gathered via video conference and in-person to actively discern the question of women and the diaconate in our Catholic Church.

This report conveys the ideas, hopes, and concerns raised in these discussions.

Report was prepared by Laura Boysen-Aragon and Casey Stanton, with contributions by Ellie Hidalgo, Lisa Amman and Luke Hansen. With thanks to Certified ToP® Facilitators Laura Johansson y Maria Teresa Gaston who led ~60 hosts in a series of consensus workshops as we sought to grow our capacity to walk together in a listening, discerning, participatory endeavor. Additional thanks to Jack Rogers for his work on graphic design.

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“As a college campus minister, diaconal ordination wouldn’t change how I encounter my students on the margins, but it would change how they encounter the Church through me. I wouldn’t be only Julia, their campus minister who tells them that God loves them unconditionally, but an official representative of a Church that loves them too.”

Julia Erdlen

College Campus Minister and Hospital Chaplain, St. Louis, MO

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“Restoring the diaconate in my church, to include women, supports the hopes and desires of our whole community where I see a longing for both male and female deacons to serve. As soon as I had the opportunity to become an acolyte, I became one. If I had the opportunity to become a deacon, I similarly would rejoice at the opportunity!”

Jessica Kenny

Chaplain, ConnectEd, Alta-1 College, Perth, Western Australia

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“If I were ordained a deacon, it would only be because I have accepted a call to a vocation that is equally accessible to women.“

Oblate James Holzhauer-Chuckas, ObSB

Executive Director of United Catholic Youth Ministries, Chicago, IL

Sharing the fruits from our season of listening

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