Pope: No women priests, but more women needed in Curia

VATICAN
The Republican

June 25, 2018

By Anne-Gerard Flynn

In a wide-ranging interview with American journalist Philip Pullella of Reuters News Agency at the Vatican June 17, Pope Francis reiterated that women would not be ordained as priests.

He cited the issue as one of dogma that John Paul II had “closed the door on” and that he was “not going to go back on that.”

However, he said there should be more women in the Roman Curia, the central government of the Church within the Holy See through which the pope governs and whose members Francis had harsh words for in 2014.

“Women have an ability to understand things, they have a different vision of things,” the 81-year-old pontiff told Reuters.

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