text: Violet, Orthodoxy has apparently already accepted the female diaconate for restoration. There does not appear to be any reason to fear that the sub-diaconate is being offered as a substitute. Both Othodoxy and Catholicism recognize that deacons, priests, and bishops receive the one same sacrament of Holy Orders, and subdeacons do not. The glass ceiling here is women receiving that sacrament. Those who resist women priests also resist women deacons with the same violence--because there is but one sacrament. Once the faithful see women vested on the altar and preaching globally every Sunday, the barrier to the priesthood and episcopate for women will be torn down. Sure, there will be those who argue, this far and no farther, but once women are acknowledged as recipients of this sacrament the internal walls within grades of that sacrament become paper thin, literally. There is a risk; it's a question of strategy--how best destroy the beast of chauvinism.