Women doing deacon-like ministry meet with Pope Francis

On the eve of the final session of the Synod on Synodality, a
diverse group of women working in ministry at the margins of the
church had the opportunity of a lifetime: a private audience with
Pope Francis at the Vatican. They brought their stories of serving
Indigenous communities, working to protect the planet and bringing
the Gospel to the peripheries. Among this global delegation was
Rosella Kinoshameg, who is from the Odawa/Ojibway people and lives
in the Wikwemikong Unceded Reserve in Manitoulin Island, Ontario,
Canada.  Zac and Ashley talk with Rosella about: - Her
experience in Canada’s residential schools, state- and
church-sponsored institutions that sought to strip Indigenous
children of the language, traditions and heritage - Her work in the
“Diocesan Order of Service,” a unique ministry that empowers mostly
Indigenous women to serve their own communities through communion
services, praying at funerals and wakes and ministering to the sick
and dying - What she makes of the conversation about women’s
ministry at the synod  In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley
recap the latest news from Rome, including Pope Francis’
announcement that he will create 21 new cardinals; the pope’s
letter to Catholics in the Middle East on the anniversary of Oct.
7; and what the synod delegates are discussing in the Paul VI Hall
this week.  Links from the show:  Pope Francis names 21
new cardinals, including Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. Pope Francis to
Catholics in the Middle East: Thank you for being able to pray and
love despite everything Jesuitical’s synod coverage is sponsored in
part by the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University.
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