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In all this talk about women's role in the Church, a more vital and visible female role for the future of the Church has been drastically overlooked—that of the mother.
The close of the synod a few months ago created a media buzz around the discussion of increasing women’s ministerial roles within the Church hierarchy, including ordination to the diaconate. There was a worldly clamor for “inclusiveness” and to “enlarge the spiritual motherhood” of women.
The question of a female diaconate was seemingly punted down the road. To assure the world that females could still obtain many—and, perhaps, more important—leadership roles, synod participants reminded everyone that women do already have great leadership roles, from Catholic school principles, to Vatican ambassadors, and even doctors of the Church.
And now we have our first woman prefect—or prefectess?—of a Vatican department, with promises from Pope Francis that there will be more to follow.
Continued below.
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The close of the synod a few months ago created a media buzz around the discussion of increasing women’s ministerial roles within the Church hierarchy, including ordination to the diaconate. There was a worldly clamor for “inclusiveness” and to “enlarge the spiritual motherhood” of women.
The question of a female diaconate was seemingly punted down the road. To assure the world that females could still obtain many—and, perhaps, more important—leadership roles, synod participants reminded everyone that women do already have great leadership roles, from Catholic school principles, to Vatican ambassadors, and even doctors of the Church.
And now we have our first woman prefect—or prefectess?—of a Vatican department, with promises from Pope Francis that there will be more to follow.
Continued below.
Women Don’t Need More Ministerial Roles—We Need Churching!
In all this talk about women’s role in the Church, a more vital and visible female role for the future of the Church has been drastically overlooked—that of the mother.
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