Cardinal Kasper Calls for Women ‘Deacons,’ Contradicting Church Teaching on Holy Orders, by Michael Haynes

By Michael Haynes, LifeSite News, November 1, 2024

Cardinal Walter Kasper issued his own call for female deacons, days after the final document of the Synod on Synodality stated the question “remains open.”

In an interview with online theology magazine Communio, Kasper opined freely on the question of the female diaconate – in an intervention that takes on special significance in light of the recently concluded Synod on Synodality.

Kasper, notable for his successful promotion of Holy Communion for the divorced and “remarried,” made reference to the two commissions on the female diaconate that Pope Francis established.

The first commission was a 12-member body convened in August 2016 that included Phyllis Zagano, a leading advocate of “ordaining” women to the diaconate, and Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, former prefect for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, as its president. The second, set up in 2020 and chaired by Cardinal Guiseppe Petrocchi, was reconvened as of last week.

“The fact that several commissions have now been entrusted with the question of the reintroduction of the diaconate for women, but none of them has come to a unanimous decision, shows that the question is controversial, but also open, and as an open question it is also referred to in the final document of the synod,” said Kasper.

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