When it comes to the private notes of a pontiff, the world usually has to wait until they’ve died to have access to them, but Pope Francis this week made some of his personal notes public.
married priests
Married Priests Debate Sparked By Pope’s Exhortation
The pope in his apostolic exhortation largely sidestepped the question of whether married men can become priests, but he made clear that it’s not happening now.
Synod Offers Cautious Support For Married Priests, Study of Women Deacons
Catholic communities in the Amazon might be able to ordain married men to the priesthood under limited circumstances, based on the outcome of a meeting of bishops in Rome that issued its final report Saturday – although the document stopped short of a full-throated endorsement for the ordination of either married men or women deacons.
Analysis: Amazon Synod Ends by Leaving an Awful Lot on the Pope’s Plate
The ordination of married men to the priesthood and women to the diaconate, and the creation of a special “Amazon rite” of the Mass — All three ideas generated enthusiasm but also blowback during the synod.