Did you notice?  No deacons.  Priests, nuns, lay ministers but no one from among the more than 17,000 deacons in this country.  Often described by bishops as "bridges," but generally only when speaking to deacons and their families, they can do no bridging in the Diocese of Midvale.  Parishioners will ask what and why and when. The deacon can only say, read the diocesan newspaper, I am as much in the dark as you.  In fact, if the bishop used c. 517, perhaps not as many parishes need be closed.