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By Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent, LifeSiteNews, Oct 31, 2024 – 4:56 pm EDT
German Cardinal Walter Kasper made a personal appeal for the female diaconate, following the Synod on Synodality’s openness to it, also adding that prohibiting women from Holy Orders is ‘problematic.’
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — 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. …