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Women’s role in Amazon church does not depend on diaconate, sisters say
- Oct 19, 2019
Whether or not the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon helps open the door to ordaining women deacons, women will continue to play a fundamental role in ministry in the church in the region, religious sisters said.
At day two, Amazon synod agrees on questions, not on answers
- Oct 8, 2019
Though it is only day two of this month’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, participants have nearly unanimously flagged a regional priest shortage and the need for a clear ministry for women as key issues up for discussion, yet while the questions seem to be clear, the answers are far from it.
Women play outsized role in missionary activity in Amazon
- Sep 9, 2019
The suggestion of a need to identify the “type of official ministry that can be conferred on women” included in the working document of the upcoming Synod for the Pan-Amazon region has been controversial, but Bishop Adriano Ciocca Vasino of the Territorial Prelature of São Félix in Brazil thinks the document is “timid” about the role of the women in the region, which he says “in many communities is already diaconal.”
Study: US religious orders overwhelmingly back women deacons
- Aug 2, 2018
A new survey has found that the majority of U.S. Catholic religious orders believe women should be allowed to serve as ordained deacons, lending support to an issue currently under study at the Vatican amid pressure for women to be given greater roles in the Church.
Citing workplace equality, Irish Prime Minister gives support to women’s ordination
- Jun 27, 2018
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has backed his culture minister after she clashed with the Dublin archbishop over the question of the ordination of women.
Irish government official calls for women’s ordination in exchange with archbishop
- Jun 26, 2018
Irish Culture Minister Josepha Madigan has called for the ordination of women after a war of words with Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin about the vocation situation in Ireland.
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