"Utrum sexus femineus impediat ordinis susceptionem". Niezdolność kobiet do przyjęcia święceń diakonatu w Kościele łacińskim w ujęciu historyczno-prawnym

Utrum sexus femineus impediat ordinis susceptionem. A women's inability to be promoted to the diaconal order in the Latin Church in the historical-legal terms The objective of the article is the historical and canonical status of today's continuing debate among theologians and canonists on the admission of women to be promoted to the diaconal order in the context of can. 1024 CCL. The article has the scientific nature and has been developed using the historical-canonical and dogmatic-canonical method. The legislator in tenor can. 1024 CCL decided that a baptized male alone receives sacra ordinato validly. The sacra ordinatio should be understood as the sacrament of ordination of all degrees (episcopate, presbyterate and diaconate). Women could be promoted to the diaconate, because it does not constitute in the priesthood of Christ. This could be done under the current legal system by abrogation of can. 1024 CCL or the issuing of an indult by the Apostolic See. The estimation of the canonical implications of the admission of women to the diaconate depends on the historical and theological valuation of the preserved sources, which testify to the existence in the ancient and medieval practice of the ordination of deaconesses. The objective of the article has been realized only in part because the continuing discussion has not yet been closed, and the fragmentation of the preserved sources does not allow for the final theses