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Yes, the basis of Francis’ self-reported anger in the interview to which you refer us, is for the same reason – the Commission has been set up to answer the first question, not the second.

However, Joshua McElwee remains correct in the quotation that you dispute: 

“Francis' openness to studying the possibility of women serving as deacons COULD represent an historic shift for the global Catholic church, which does not ordain women as clergy.”

More background is required. 

The CDF has commissioned two prior studies of the female diaconate. The first answered the first question in the positive—historical female deacons received the sacrament of Holy Orders exactly like male deacons. 

The CDF did not like this answer, so they refused to publish it. Instead they picked someone known to hold the opposite view, to write a second report, and, wonder of wonders, that study said female deacons were not real deacons. The CDF liked that answer, and so they had it published.

(cont.)