Cardinal Tobin on the synod and the future of women deacons

At the end of the second session of the Synod on Synodality,
Jesuitical’s co-host Zac Davis and producer Sebastian Gomes spoke
with Cardinal Joseph Tobin, the archbishop of Newark, about the
synod’s final document, which kept open the question of women’s
access to the diaconate. The cardinal also spoke to the urgent need
for initiating processes of communal decision-taking in parishes
and for greater accountability to synodality among U.S. bishops.
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