Meet a Catholic woman who feels called to be a deacon

Jesuitical

America Media

Spirituality, Christianity, News, News Commentary, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 949 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The debate about whether the Catholic Church should ordain women to the diaconate often focuses on theological and historical arguments. Rarely, though, do we hear from women who themselves feel called to this ministry. Meet Casey Stanton, co-director of Discerning Deacons, a project to engage Catholics in the active discernment of the church about women and the diaconate. We talk to Casey about how and why she feels like she’s called, and how she tempers feelings of frustration with a commitment to staying in the church. Links from the Show: America’s special women in the church issue Avery Dulles on women and the priesthood (from 1996) Learn more about Discerning Deacons. And read their new study: Called to Contribute: Findings from an In-depth Interview Study of US Catholic Women and the Diaconate What’s on tap? Hope Punch: The church is a pomegranate–service to the many in the one Rum for fortification Champagne for joy in the midst Lemon with sugar to balance the pastoral with the prophetic Garnished with thyme and the patience to wait and to push...to insist on justice now knowing you will stay....to the eschaton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Born with 300 bones, 10,000 taste buds, and the ability to make you smile in an instant.
0:08.0	Babies development fascinates us.
0:11.0	That's why SMA nutrition has been pioneering baby nutrition research
0:15.6	for over 100 years. We believe that breast milk is best for babies and breastfeeding
0:21.3	should continue for as long as possible.
0:23.8	We also understand everyone's journey is different.
0:27.0	SMA follow-on-on- Milk is the babies over six months as part of a varied weaning diet, not intended to replace breastfeeding.
0:34.4	SMA Nutrition, pioneering baby nutrition since 1919. Hello and welcome to Judge Whiticle, a podcast by the Young Hip and Lay editors of
0:56.0	America Media.
0:57.2	That lay part means we aren't Jesuits, but we work with them.
1:00.3	Join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith culture in the news, often over drinks.
1:04.9	I'm Ashley McKinless and I'm joined by Zach Davis.
1:07.5	And I am alive. You are alive!
1:09.1	Some people want to be dead.
1:10.0	That's a reference to later on in the show. I'm quoting the Pope there, but I am doing well. I am alive.
1:18.0	I'm really excited to be with you today for this show. Me too. This is going to be a good one. Yeah, we have a really, we got, the Pope just like keeps giving us speeches and quotes and things, so we've got more to impact, so that's coming up first. But not only that, an amazing interview with Casey Stanton.
1:34.0	Yeah I'm sure you clicked on this podcast in your feed because you saw the words
1:37.3	women deacons and that always gets a lot of eyeballs and in ears when it comes up and
1:42.0	we have a really incredible way to approach it I think today.
1:45.4	Yeah, so Casey is the co-director of discerning deacons, which is a project that seeks to engage Catholics in the active discernment of the church about women and the diaculate.
1:56.0	So Casey is someone who herself personally feels called to be a deacon and of course in the current church that's not a possibility for her.
2:04.9	Right and it's not a currently a possibility but the idea is under study by the Vatican
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from America Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of America Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.