Women Deacons A Possibility Says Cardinal

The Tablet (UK), Free Republic
Fri, 02/24/2017 - 8:08pm

President of Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, thinks a women's diaconate could happen.According to the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the diaconate for women is a possibility. Asked in a long interview for the German Church’s website katholisch.de on 24 February, what possibilities he saw for women in the Catholic Church, Ravasi replied, “The diaconate for women would, I think, be possible but it must of course, be discussed, as the historic tradition is very complex.” He thought the present fixation on women’s ordination somewhat “clerical”, he said.

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