The Guardian view on women in the Catholic church: let down yet again | Editorial
The Vatican’s latest refusal to contemplate female ordination is compromising Pope Francis’s modernising mission The Bible offers tantalising glimpses of the influential role played by women in the early Christian church. In Romans 16, for example, St Paul vouches for the credentials of “our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church of Cenchreae”, who appears…