Once authorized, women as permanent deacons would flood our church with an enormous inflow of spirituality and practical wisdom. Married men and women would cause an explosion in seminary applications and completely re-orient our parishes to pastoral care. The huge increase in ordained ministers of both sexes, married and celibate, would bring our entire church out of the dark age of clericalism. We certainly don't need to restrict this gift to only those countries and regions with the greatest shortages of priests. Even in our most developed countries we are experiencing "Eucharistic and Homilectic Famine."