@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt13x0584.22,
 ISBN = {9780823256570},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x0584.22},
 abstract = {My dad was in the first class of the ordained permanent diaconate. This sentence may require some unpacking for my non-Catholic readers. So here you go, heathens: Before a man could become a Catholic priest, he would typically spend a year serving as a Catholic deacon. Deacons are to priests as novices are to nuns—or they used to be. In the 1980s, to address a growing shortage of Catholic priests (a shortage that has since gotten worse), the church created the permanent deaconate. Ordained deacons could do almost everything priests do—pass out wafers, preach sermons, baptize babies—and},
 author = {DAN SAVAGE},
 booktitle = {More than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church: Voices of Our Times},
 pages = {165--174},
 publisher = {Fordham University Press},
 title = {At a Loss},
 year = {2014}
}