Some parishioners at St. Patrick Catholic Community in Scottsdale, Arizona, are raising objections after two members of the parish staff, former priest Kevin McGloin and inactive priest John Konicek, were fired. McGloin served the parish as the director of liturgy and Christian formation, and Konicek was director of adult formation and parish spirituality.
Fordham symposium discusses possibilities of women deacons
Demacopoulos, a theology professor and co-director of Fordham's Orthodox Christian Studies Center, said there was a liturgical rite for the ordination of women that dates to the fourth century. "My sense is everybody in the room knows, but let me say just in case, there is absolutely no historical doubt whatsoever that the early church had a female diaconate. This is just fundamentally indisputable."