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Next, this also means that the Pope has not been talking to the people who are in favor of the ordination of women! He hasn’t been paying attention to the advocates of deaconettes. Instead, he has been talking to those who find the question obscure and muddy.

Fr. Z needs to stop kidding himself. Francis made this statement to a gaggle of superiors of liberal nuns. Francis switches tunes according to his audiences.

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Pope Francis with his future deaconettes.