Anna Robertson

Anna Robertson

Anna Robertson is director of distributed organizing at Discerning Deacons, a project that engages Catholics in the active discernment of our church about women and the diaconate and contributes to the renewal of the diaconate for our times. Previously, she directed Catholic Climate Covenant's youth and young adult mobilization efforts and served as a campus minister at Seattle University.

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Rhonda Miska offers a Scripture reflection at St. Thomas More in St. Paul, Minnesota, during their September 2023 celebration of St. Phoebe. (Courtesy of Brennan Hall)

On women deacons, who's getting ahead of the church?

"Women and the diaconate cannot be the exception to synodality," writes Anna Robertson. Doing so "risk(s) undermining the entire synodal project, the integrity of the church and the life of the people of God."

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