A recent Guardian editorial attempted to address a perceived issue within Catholicism: the absence of female deacons. The editorial lamented how the recent Synod of Bishops and Pope Francis had missed a wonderful opportunity to rectify this absence.
I would guess that whoever put the editorial together doesn’t fully understand what a deacon is or does, but rather, having discovered that Catholics do not have female deacons – which must most definitely be wrong, especially given the involvement of an anachronism such as the Catholic Church – decided to set about fixing the institution's problems with gusto.
