ROME – A Spanish nun who has participated in recent meetings of Pope Francis’s top advisory body has said that while women’s priestly ordination is currently off the table, the pontiff is supportive of having a female diaconate.
Speaking to the news agency Europa Press, Spanish nun and theologian Linda Pocher said that while “there is no reflection on the priestly ordination of women in the Catholic Church”, the Pope “is very much in favour of the female diaconate”.
Pocher was one of three women, including an Anglican bishop, who addressed the most recent meeting of the pope’s Council of Cardinals, a group of cardinals from around the world who advise the pope on matters of Church governance and reform.
