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In the Roman Catholic Church, deacons may perform some duties of priests, such as presiding at baptisms, marriages and funerals. Currently, only men are allowed to be Catholic deacons. Pope Francis recently said he would establish a commission to study whether the diaconate should be opened to women as well. Judy Valente reports on the role of deacons and efforts to see women included in that role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe had the exact same training \u2013 two nights a week, one weekend a month, summer internships. I wrote every paper he wrote,\u201d says Maureen Garvey, who along with her husband took classes to prepare for the diaconate. \u201cThe only thing that was different was the day of ordination, I had tears in my eyes when all the guys were called up and they left their wives there sitting in the pews.\u201d More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":31520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-culture-and-society","topics-ethics","topics-faith-and-spirituality","faith-catholic","faith-christian"],"yoast_head":"\nCatholic Deacons | July 15, 2016 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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