text: Nora, I agree with nearly everything you say here. But requiring the ordained to have a certain gender/orientation -- asexual male -- would have to be a violation of civil rights in every other case, in the case of the hetero male, gays, asexual females, hetero females, lesbians. Only asexual males are not discriminated against by the Church demanding male celibacy.  There should be no married male priests and no female deacons until all ordination is open to women and all LGBT, etc.  The Pope says in the article the deacon study is not a matter of opening a door (to women's ordination presumably).  And it would seem he is about to snatch the job of parish administrator away from all the women running parishes in remote areas.  After four years of this, I would hope no one is under the illusion that this Pope can think his way out of the box.  He doesn't know anything about women deacons, only 'deaconesses'? Who will educate this Pope?