Some take a new commission appointed by the Vatican to study female deaconesses could be a step on the way to women priests. Others say that’s impossible. Pope Francis, at one point, said he was “angry” that some were taking an earlier statement he made to mean that deaconesses were in the offing.
New committee on female deacons sparks divisions
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