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.
Synod of Bishops on the Amazon
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.