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Pope discusses deaconesses, need for nuns to be servants not ‘maids’
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- May 12, 2019
Pope Francis told the heads of women’s religious orders from around the world they need to send sisters on assignments that truly serve the Church and those in need, and not agree to requests for “maids.”
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Pope vows to fight nun abuse, urges service not servitude
- Associated Press, Vatican
- May 10, 2019
Pope Francis vowed Friday to combat the sexual abuse of nuns and urged religious sisters to just say no when clergy want to use them as maids.
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Women deacons debate shows usefulness of commissions in keeping things ‘unresolved’
- News Analysis
- May 10, 2019
When Pope Francis established a commission to study the issue of women deacons in 2016, no one was sure what it would do. Which might have been the point.
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Pope says study of ordaining women deacons so far inconclusive
- Pope in Bulgaria and Macedonia
- May 7, 2019
Speaking to journalists on board his flight from Skopje to Rome Tuesday, Pope Francis offered an update on the debate over women deacons, telling journalists the study he launchd two years ago is inconclusive, and the topic needs further study.
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Women religious to gather in Rome searching for the ‘new’
- Vatican
- May 3, 2019
About 850 superior generals will convene in Rome next week to discuss the role of women religious today, and “novelty” is in the air.
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Most U.S. bishops say they would ordain women deacons, if Vatican gives OK
- Church in the US
- Jan 22, 2019
A new study found that a majority of U.S. bishops are skeptical of the theoretical possibility of women deacons.
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