Irish Archbishops Want Female Deacons - Have Women Leading Parishes
He would have preferred the report on women deacons to be published alongside those of the other groups examining co-responsibility and the role of lay people in the Church, as this would have provided a more balanced perspective, in his view.
He added: “It’s interesting that Pope Leo XIV said this question remains open rather than saying it's over.”
Archbishop Martin considers it "a really important question" of how women can fully exercise their baptismal priesthood. He considers his question “very, very pressing” because “those who have thought that the path to decision-making, leadership and service in the Church goes through the priesthood will now feel that women are excluded”.
In Dublin, Women Are “Ministers of the Eucharist“
Separately, Archbishop Dermot Farrell of Dublin told TheTablet.co.uk that he had “no doubt that very many people, both women and men, will have been disappointed at the reported outcome of the study of the question of the ordination of women to the diaconate”.
He believes that the ordination of women as "deacons" remains open to further theological and pastoral study.
“The question of the women’s diaconate specifically now returns to Pope Leo for further discernment.“
In Dublin, he said that women are prominent not only as ministers of the Word and of the Eucharist, but also as leaders of prayer services and funeral ministers at important moments in the lives of the faithful.
He added: “I have no doubt that, in the near future, women will serve as parish leaders, continuing and developing the ministries they already perform.“
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