1.   A female deacon has made history by becoming the first woman to be put in charge of a parish in the Gloucester Diocese.

2.   Female deacons who are preparing to become full-fledged priests have been allowed to work in churches in the Fort Worth diocese, Hough noted.

3.   He would be more open to the idea of female deacons and perhaps, eventually, female priests.

4.   Another cardinal, Pio Laghi, said then the reason for the ban on female deacons boiled down to the fact that Jesus was a man.

5.   Moustakis has cited various historical examples from the early days of Christianity, when there were female deacons.