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Kathleen Carlton Johnson

“Women have been the caregivers and great support of most churches. Why? Because we deal with the personhood of the ordinary. The everyday matters of living. To me, that is what a deacon is. She extends the Church to the common community: visiting the sick and dying, helping parents with family problems, attending as a lector at Mass, burying the dead, and comforting families.” 

M. Therese Lysaught, Ph.D.

“It is time for the Church to heed the Spirit’s voice, recognizing women’s call to the diaconate and allow the Spirit to restore and renew the Body of Christ so that it may fully live into its identity of missionary discipleship.”

Joan D. Martin, Ph.D.

"Siento que la Iglesia católica, tal y como está estructurada, no es lo que Jesús imaginó para sus seguidores, muchos de los cuales eran mujeres de su época. ¿Qué pasó?"

Keith Davis

"Es hora de abrir el diaconado permanente a todos los que estén cualificados, independientemente del sexo. La Iglesia necesita este testimonio".

Lena Denis

"Tener mujeres presentes en el liderazgo de la misa revelaría realmente la importancia de las mujeres en la iglesia".

Deacon Frank “Jay” Vocelka, OblSB

“What a blessing it would be to see women … preaching the Good News from the pulpit and feeding God’s people at the Eucharist table as an Ordinary Minister of Holy Communion.”

Katherine Novinski

“My hope is that young girls will not be reminded on a weekly basis of how they are excluded from Catholic Mass and that young boys will not be reminded on a weekly basis of how they are empowered above women through the current Catholic institutional structures.”

Louise Beggs

“Our Church needs women to be fully alive and active in and through her. I hope I see women welcomed to enter and live the diaconate in our Catholic Church in my lifetime. I would sign up yesterday.”

Fr. Gonzalo Torres-Acosta, OFM

La ordenación de mujeres para el diaconado no es solo una necesidad urgente de la Iglesia para responder a la gran escasez de vocaciones a la vida consagrada, sino también, y más importantemente, una cuestión de Justica y una verdadera edificación del Reino de Dios, donde reconozcamos and afirmemos, como el Cuerpo de Cristo, la IGUALDAD, la dignidad y los dones que mujeres y hombres hemos recibido de nuestro Creador.

Fr. Gregory Michael Barras

“Women are created in the image and likeness of God. Their wisdom, experience, emotional constitution are critical to leading a parish, diocese, any ministry.”