Podcast: 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.

Thank you for following Jesuitical’s coverage of the Synod on Synodality. It was sponsored in part by the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University.

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Links:

• Synodality—and ‘controversial’ issues—are here to stay: Takeaways from the Synod’s final document
• Pope Francis says he will not write his own exhortation on synod, publishes members’ final document
• Women Deacons and the Catholic Church: A Video Explainer