Pope Francis has created a commission to study the possibility of allowing women to serve as deacons in the Catholic Church, following up on a promise made last May, the Catholic News website reports today (August 2, 2016).
The Pontiff has appointed an equal number of male and female experts as members of the commission, which will be led by Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria, a Jesuit who serves as the second-in-command of the Vatican's doctrinal congregation.
The Vatican said that the Pope had decided to create the group "after intense prayer and mature reflection" and wanted it particularly to study the the history of the female diaconate "in the earliest times of the Church."
The formal name given to the group is "Study Commission on the Women's Diaconate." The commission's members include experts in patristic theology, ecclesiology, and spirituality.
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