The discernment about women's participation in the church, particularly the discernment about restoring women to the diaconate, challenges even Pope Francis to follow the synodal process of listening for the will of the Holy Spirit.
I was particularly delighted that on Sept. 30 the pope received a group of women who minister to the people of God at the peripheries and share the dream of a prophetic, synodal diaconate.
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