American named to women deacons panel feels like she won Oscar

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  American named to women deacons panel feels like she won Oscar

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  • David Gibson
  • August 4, 2016
  Phyllis Zagano, a longtime champion of women being ordained as deacons and the lone American woman named to a new commission created by Pope Francis to study the topic, said about learning she was named to the panel, “I feel like I’ve won the Academy Award.”