Cardinal Kasper: Women’s diaconate would be ‘sensible pastoral step’
May 26, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: “In my personal opinion, opening up the permanent diaconate to women has good theological arguments in its favor and would be a sensible pastoral step,” Cardinal Walter Kasper writes in his new autobiography.
The 92-year-old prelate recently suggested in an interview that that Pope Francis was prepared to ease the discipline of priestly celibacy, but decided against the move after a book published by Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Robert Sarah rallied opposition to the change.
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