While the issue of women deacons in the institutional church may be hanging by a thread, the reality is women are following their God-given call to ordained leadership in the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests.
I am grateful for women deacons and priests following their God-given call in ARCWP and RCWP in inclusive communities and ministries throughout the world!
According to a recent article published by the Catholic News Agency: “The interim report on the group’s progress, published ahead of full reports, which are due at the end of the year, was signed by Father Armando Matteo, secretary of the doctrinal section of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is overseeing the highly-watched expert panel.
Matteo confirmed to CNA that the synod is no longer examining a possible female diaconate and the question is in the hands of the now-revived 2020 commission, whose members “respond to the Holy Father.”
In April 2020, Pope Francis created a 10-person theological commission to study the question of a female diaconate, the second commission he formed on the topic during his pontificate.
An original member of the 2020 commission, permanent deacon and seminary professor James Keating, told CNA that “the commission still exists ‘until Pope Leo discerns its dissolution.’”
See photos of Barbara Hanley’s priestly ordination in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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