The only reason this issue keeps popping up is because there are people on the left who are quite clerically minded.

They can't seem to understand the lay vocation, at all.

If they did, and if they knew how to pursue Jesus in their lay vocation, they'd give not a moment to this silly topic of deacons.   They'd be too busy trying to sanctify their lay life, deepening their love of Jesus Christ in the secular world, not the clerical world. 

Instead, they see everything in terms of clergy and religious.

Inasmuch as NCR constantly gripes about clerics...it's actually a very very clerical news site.

Like the tick of an old clock these topics cycle through NCR again and again.  

Let's have 3 protest signs and an eco article by the end of the week please.