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[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Fernández Says Female Diaconate Will be Studied ‘More Intensively’Cardinal Victor Fernández, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, announced that the female diaconate will be the subject of a more in-depth study under the impetus of the proposals sent to the commission assigned to this task. He also stated that this question, although Pope Francis considers it not “mature,” is not a “closed issue.”To delve deeper into the differences between holy orders and authority in order to be able to entrust laywomen with leadership functions in the Church is, according to Fernández, the...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Eleganti: Pope Francis promotes ‘synodality’ while acting ‘authoritarian’‘Although Pope Francis has written Synodality on his banner, he has a very authoritarian leadership style,’ Bishop Marian Eleganti noted, criticizing the Vatican synod for being determined by a small group of officials rather than the Holy Spirit.Pope Francis with Cdl. Grech at the Synod on Synodality Swiss Bishop Marian Eleganti has said that the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality is determined by “ready-made agendas” and criticized Pope Francis for his hypocrisy.In an interview with the Swiss news outlet kath.ch, he posited that “ready-made agendas will determine the synodal process and...