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.--> READ MORE
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