Pope Francis has set up a new commission to study the diaconate for women, the Vatican announced on April 8.
The pontiff had promised he would do so last October as he concluded the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian region at which the question was also discussed.
The commission has 10 members, including five women, who are all European, and five men, two of whom are deacons from the United States.
Its president will be Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi, archbishop of L’Aquila, and its secretary will be the Rev. Denis Dupont-Fauville, an official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
This is the second commission established by Pope Francis to study the question of a women’s diaconate.
He agreed to set up a first commission, which focused primarily on the role of women deacons in the early church, in response to a request made in May 2016 at the triennial meeting of International Union of Superiors General of women’s religious orders and established the commission in August 2016.
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