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| Pope Francis proposes female deacons, married priests at Amazon synod |
| 2019-10-27 |
| [FOXNEWS] Pope Francis, rounding out his synod of Amazonian clergy, announced Saturday that he would be reopening a commission to study the history of women as deacons in the early days of the Catholic Church. After calls by women for greater decision-making roles in the Church, the pope made the announcement at the end of his three-week assembly discussing issues facing the Amazon region, solutions to a shortage of priests, environmental protection and the role of women. Francis originally opened a commission to study the possibility of women in the role in 2016, but the commission ended its work without a consensus on the topic. A gathering of 181 bishops voted on 120 recommendations presented to the pope. The recommendation to re-examine female deacons passed the two-thirds vote threshold, 137 in favor and 30 opposed, according to the Wall Street Journal. Related: Pope Francis: 2019-10-17 Pope Announces Any Time Spent Watching 'The View' Counts As Time Served In Purgatory Pope Francis: 2019-10-10 Scalfari: Pope Francis Told Me That Jesus Incarnate Was a 'Man ... Not at All a God' Pope Francis: 2019-10-01 Pope Could Soon Say ‘I Do’ to Married Priests--and Open a Schism |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Where is his basis for ordination of women in the Bible and Dogma of the Catholic Church? This is sacrilege and heresy by liberals. More evidence of the heretical leanings of this Jesuit disaster of a Pope. Married Priests are a different story, there is historical precedent, and right now they are allowed in the Roman church if they are married and convert from certain denomination, or the Eastern Orthodox. |
| Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 2019-10-27 17:52 |
| #5 Every institution in the West is controlled by the West's enemies. Hence "Conservatives" fetish for preserving them is misguided. |
| Posted by: charger 2019-10-27 16:52 |
| #4 ... at Amazon synod Jesus, can't we keep Bezos from owning everything?! Where are the world's antimonopoly enforcers?! |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-10-27 11:19 |
| #3 The priesthood was A sad, spartan life. What crosses we carried! But now that we're married, Our passions are purely uxorious. |
| Posted by: Ulomort Greans5322 2019-10-27 09:59 |
| #2 Will that include priests marrying other priests? |
| Posted by: Airandee 2019-10-27 08:53 |
| #1 "We should like to think they are as desirous and deserving of the service of the Lord as men. At the very least we can hope they won't be raping the children ! Ahem... and we shall also quell the feminist rebellion growing in the pews. So two shitty birds with one stone."  |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-10-27 04:17 |