A Diakonos by Any Other Name

Why won't Pope Francis, and many Protestant churches, allow ordained female deacons?

Part of “The Last Judgment” mosaic on the wall of Santa Maria de Assunta (Torcello, Italy), showing groups of the saved, divided into bishops, nobility, monks, and women. If the groups of men indicated social and ecclesial rank, could the women also indicate a group of clergy?

Do servants need official permission to serve? How do we reconcile the practi…