Numerous Submissions

"The Commission received a large amount of significant written material to analyse on the issue of women deacons, after the Synod had invited anyone who wished to do so to send in their contributions. Although there were numerous submissions, only twenty-two individuals or groups sent in their papers, representing only a few countries. Consequently, although the material is abundant and in some cases skillfully argued, it cannot be considered the voice of the Synod, let alone of the People of God as a whole."

And so has ended the tiny but noisy, and therefore obviously very well-funded, women's ordination craze that, although theologically always doomed, had exercised such institutional power within the Church in those "only a few countries" around the turn of the century. Its remnant is clutching at straws, but so is the Co-Redemptrix cult, which will go the same way, probably in about a quarter of a century's time. On This Rock, brothers and sisters. On This Rock.