The Fluffbucket Diaries

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Fascinating piece here on the debate over female deacons in the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy’s “pretty fierce division” on the matter, and how the issue could either draw the churches closer or further separate them.

Roger Wm. Bennett

The article makes it sound as if Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism were separate and parallel from the beginning. It’s certainly true that things began developing a bit differently in the Roman patriarchate than in the four more eastern patriarchates, but I’d think any practice common in any portion of the Church before the Great Schism would be presumptively permissible in Latin and Eastern Christianity now.

(But what do I know, anyway?)