Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, the Vatican’s doctrine chief, announced today that “based on the analysis so far…there is still no room for a positive decision” on ordaining women deacons.
October 6, 2024, the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: Somewhere in the background of today’s passages hides the sacramental analogy that refers to the church as bride and Christ as her groom.
Pope Francis has decided that this year, we will be discussing not any series of topics—clericalism women’s ordination to the diaconate, or ministry to L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics—but synodality itself.