Vatican says women deacons and LGBTQ+, not celibacy, on docket for synod
Pope Francis joins leaders of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops for prayer before a working session in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall October 20, 2023. Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, a president delegate of the assembly, is seen to the right of the pope. Photo: CNS photo/Lola Gomez
Organisers of Pope Francis’s ongoing Synod of Bishops on Synodality have announced that ten different working groups hadvebeen formed in the Roman Curia to address specific topics that came out of last year’s session. These topics, they said, are restricted to issues mentioned inside of the synod hall and include hot-button questions such as…