Pope Leo unlikely to elevate women to priesthood

Pope Leo unlikely to elevate women to priesthood

In recent decades, Popes Paul VI and John Paul II both promulgated solemn decrees reaffirming the church’s age old, unbroken teaching that women cannot be ordained to the priesthood. In “Ordinatio Sacerdotalis,” the most recent decree (John Paul II, 1994), it was stated inflexibly that the church “has no authority whatsoever” to do so, and […]

"Can you imagine being denied the priesthood because you're male?" He didn't answer, he just listened. Sister Laura Vicuña Pereira Manso, anthropologist, linguist, and social psychologist, shares part of the conversation she had in 2022 with Pope Francis (†) about the female diaconate. The Indigenous nun and Franciscan catechist called the pontiff "grandfather," a sign of respect from the Kariri ethnic group toward the elderly and wise.