Creeping deaconesses
Sir: If the Revd Timothy Platts is accusing the Anglo-Catholics of innocence in not objecting to the ordination of woman dea- cons, he is right (Letters, 3 April). I believe you have to be innocent, or even foolish, to join his gang. There is, of course, a vital dif- ference between deacons and priests, in that the former may not celebrate the Eucharist. Mindful of that, and mindful that the Church had had deaconesses for many years, there seemed no harm in what was happening. Too late, we saw that it was all part of a vast wedge, whereby women would insinuate themselves into the works, crouching at the ear of our senior church- men; indeed, even in the beds of some of them, since a lot of women deacons are married to priests.
In no time, everyone was saying wearily, 'Of course, it's got to come.' Now, it has come, and the wise Revd Timothy Platts saw it coming all along. Well done, Revd!
Paul Griffin I Strickland Place, Southwold, Suffolk
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