Asking Pope Francis bold questions during an audience could be a new way to reform the Church. His impromptu remark, made to the heads of women’s religious orders in the Vatican, about his intention to create a commission to study the question of women in the diaconate – “especially regarding the earliest days of the Church” – turned out to be a promise. Less than three months later, on August 2, the Vatican announced the appointment of a “study commission on the diaconate of women”.
The commission consists of a president and 12 members, evenly split between men and women.
10 August 2016, The Tablet
Questions of inclusion
Commission on Women in the Diaconate
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