Vatican synod gets a proposal to ordain women as deacons
c. 2015 Religion News Service
(RNS) The most controversial proposal floated so far at the high-level Vatican summit on church teachings on the family suggests ordaining women not as priests, but as deacons.
Still, even that suggestion—made by a Canadian archbishop on Tuesday (October 6), near the start of the three-week synod called by Pope Francis—was considered eye-popping.
